they will live in desolate cities, in houses that no one should inhabit, houses destined to become heaps of ruins;
Isaiah 5:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land! More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to those who join house to house [and by violently expelling the poorer occupants enclose large acreage] and join field to field until there is no place for others and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land! Common English Bible Doom to those who acquire house after house, who annex field to field until there is no more space left and only you live alone in the land. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you who join house to house, and who combine field to field, even to the limits of the place! Do you intend to live alone in the midst of the earth? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you that join house to house and lay field to field, even to the end of the place: shall you alone dwell in the midst of the earth? |
they will live in desolate cities, in houses that no one should inhabit, houses destined to become heaps of ruins;
There was nothing left after they had eaten; therefore their prosperity will not endure.
Those greedy for unjust gain make trouble for their households, but those who hate bribes will live.
Mortal, your kinsfolk, your own kin, your fellow exiles, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “Stay far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.”
Mortal, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, “Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land, but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.”
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they have ripped open pregnant women in Gilead in order to enlarge their territory.
Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.
They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.
Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.