Isaiah 5:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

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  • Matt 23:38 : 38 See, your house is made waste.
  • Isa 22:14 : 14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
  • Isa 27:10 : 10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.
  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.
  • Amos 6:11 : 11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.
  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 So that the words of the Lord, which he said by the mouth of Jeremiah, might come true, till the land had had pleasure in her Sabbaths; for as long as she was waste the land kept the Sabbath, till seventy years were complete.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.
  • Isa 6:11-12 : 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste, 12 And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

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  • Isa 5:7-8
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    7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

    8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

  • Zeph 1:13
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    13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • Amos 6:11
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    11 For see, at the order of the Lord the great house will be full of cracks and the little house will be broken.

  • Jer 22:5-6
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    5 But if you do not give ear to these words, I give you my oath by myself, says the Lord, that this house will become a waste.

    6 For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.

  • Hag 1:9
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    9 You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

  • Isa 6:11-12
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    11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

    12 And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

  • Jer 6:12
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    12 And their houses will be handed over to others, their fields and their wives together: for my hand will be stretched out against the people of the land, says the Lord.

  • Amos 3:15
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    15 And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.

  • Amos 5:11
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    11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • Isa 24:3
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    3 The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.

  • Jer 33:10
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    10 This is what the Lord has said: There will again be sounding in this place, of which you say, It is a waste, without man and without beast; even in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem which are waste and unpeopled, without man and without beast,

  • Job 15:28
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    28 And he has made his resting-place in the towns which have been pulled down, in houses where no man had a right to be, whose fate was to become masses of broken walls.

  • 1 Kgs 9:8
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    8 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

  • Mic 3:12
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    12 For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Jer 12:11
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    11 They have made it waste; it is weeping to me, being wasted; all the land is made waste, because no man takes it to heart.

  • Jer 25:37
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    37 And there is no sound in the fields of peace, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

  • Isa 5:10
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    10 For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

  • Jer 6:8
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    8 Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.

  • Amos 5:16-17
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    16 So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.

    17 In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.

  • Zech 5:4
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    4 And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

  • Jer 33:12
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    12 This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.

  • Isa 24:1
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    1 See, the Lord is making the earth waste and unpeopled, he is turning it upside down, and sending the people in all directions.

  • Jer 5:10-11
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    10 Go up against her vines and make waste; let the destruction be complete: take away her branches, for they are not the Lord's.

    11 For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.

  • Zeph 3:6
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    6 I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.

  • Isa 32:13
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    13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

  • Jer 9:10-11
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    10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

    11 And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

  • Hag 1:5
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    5 For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

  • Jer 21:11
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    11 About the family of the king of Judah. Give ear to the word of the Lord;

  • Amos 5:1
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    1 Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.

  • Isa 1:7
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    7 Your country has become waste; your towns are burned with fire; as for your land, it is overturned before your eyes, made waste and overcome by men from strange lands.

  • Mic 2:4
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    4 In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.

  • 2 Chr 7:21
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    21 And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

  • Ezek 12:20
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    20 And the peopled towns will be made waste, and the land will become a wonder; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.

  • Jer 5:20
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    20 Say this openly in Jacob and give it out in Judah, saying,

  • Isa 3:14
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    14 The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

  • Jer 44:2
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    2 The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: You have seen all the evil which I have sent on Jerusalem and on all the towns of Judah; and now, this day they are waste and unpeopled;

  • Mic 7:13
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    13 But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4 Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

  • Jer 7:11
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    11 Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

  • Amos 5:3
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    3 For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.

  • Jer 10:17
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    17 Get your goods together and go out of the land, O you who are shut up in the walled town.

  • Isa 27:10
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    10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • Isa 21:10
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    10 O my crushed ones, the grain of my floor! I have given you the word which came to me from the Lord of armies, the God of Israel.