Isaiah 5:9

Translations

Modern

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

Traditional

In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Literal

In my hearing, YHWH of Hosts says: “Surely many houses will be a desolation—great and beautiful ones without one dwelling!

Latin

In auribus meis sunt hæc, dicit Dominus exercituum; nisi domus multæ desertæ fuerint, grandes et pulchræ, absque habitatore.

Original

Hebrew

English

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

Notes

Isaiah 5:8–10

Woe: The first warning of judgment was against oppressive greed. People took properties, like houses and fields, illegally. The new owners were bullies who used every method to get richer at the expense of the poor (see 1 Kings 21:1–29; Amos 2:6–7).

Isaiah 5:8–23

This section contains six pronouncements of sorrow. They are six warnings of dreadful judgment (Isaiah 5:8, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22). These sorrows highlight some of the "sour grapes" produced by the vineyard of Israel (5:1–7).

Isaiah 5:1–30

The prophet delivered judgment through a song (Isaiah 5:1–7) and prophecies of sorrow (5:8–30). Although Israel's future will be pure and in fellowship with God (Isaiah 4:2–6), it must address the current sinful state of the people and their leaders.

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Matthew 23:38
Look, your house is left to you desolate.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
Isaiah 22:14
The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.
Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
Isaiah 27:10
For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
Amos 6:11
For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
Isaiah 6:11–12
Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
Isaiah 5:6
I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
2 Chronicles 36:21
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.
Matthew 22:7
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.

People

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Glossary

Coins Curse, Cursed Desert Isaiah, Book of Prophecy Riches

Topics

Houses of the Rich: Great Houses: Desolation of, Threatened As a Punishment Isaiah: Prophecies, Reproofs, and Exhortations of Denounces Existing Corruptions

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