Isaiah 5:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Truly many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful, without inhabitant.

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  • Matt 23:38 : 38 See, your house is left to you desolate.
  • Isa 22:14 : 14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
  • Isa 27:10 : 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.
  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.
  • Amos 5:11 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.
  • Amos 6:11 : 11 For behold, the LORD commands, and He will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.
  • Matt 22:7 : 7 But when the king heard about it, he was angry: and he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
  • 2 Chr 36:21 : 21 to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  • Isa 6:11-12 : 11 Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate, 12 And the LORD has removed men far away, and there is a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

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  • Isa 5:7-8
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    85%

    7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

    8Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, till there is no place, that they may dwell alone in the midst of the earth!

  • 13Therefore their goods shall become plunder, and their houses a desolation: they shall build houses, but not inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine from them.

  • 11For behold, the LORD commands, and He will strike the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

  • Jer 22:5-6
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    5But if you will not hear these words, I swear by myself, says the LORD, that this house shall become a desolation.

    6For thus says the LORD to the house of the king of Judah; You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

  • 9You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.

  • Isa 6:11-12
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    11Then I said, Lord, how long? And He answered, Until the cities are laid waste without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land is utterly desolate,

    12And the LORD has removed men far away, and there is a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

  • 12And their houses shall be turned to others, with their fields and wives together; for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, says the LORD.

  • 15And I will strike the winter house with the summer house; the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end, says the LORD.

  • 11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • 3The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly plundered, for the LORD has spoken this word.

  • 10Thus says the LORD: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

  • 28And he dwells in desolate cities, and in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

  • 8And at this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?

  • 12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • 11They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourns to Me; the whole land is made desolate, because no one lays it to heart.

  • 37And the peaceful habitations are cut down because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • 10Indeed, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

  • 8Be instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from you; lest I make you desolate, a land not inhabited.

  • Amos 5:16-17
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    16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and such as are skilled in lamentation to wailing.

    17And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through you, says the LORD.

  • 4I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.

  • 12Thus says the LORD of hosts: Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall be a habitation for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

  • 1Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad its inhabitants.

  • Jer 5:10-11
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    10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

    11For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, says the LORD.

  • 6I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passes by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, no inhabitant.

  • 13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

  • Jer 9:10-11
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    10For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

    11And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  • 5Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

  • 11Concerning the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear the word of the LORD;

  • 1Hear this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

  • 7Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

  • 4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly spoiled: he has changed the portion of my people; how has he removed it from me! Turning away, he has divided our fields.

  • 21And this house, which is exalted, shall be an astonishment to everyone who passes by it; so that they will say, Why has the LORD done this to this land and to this house?

  • 20And the cities that are inhabited shall be laid waste, and the land shall be desolate; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

  • 20Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

  • 14The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

  • 2Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; You have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no one lives there,

  • 13Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

  • 9Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.

  • 4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • 11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.

  • 3For thus says the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth by a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

  • 17Gather up your wares out of the land, O inhabitant of the fortress.

  • 10Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • 10O my threshing and the grain of my floor: that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.