Isaiah 5:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing: “Surely many houses shall be desolate, large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ In my [Isaiah's] ears the Lord of hosts said, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and beautiful ones shall be without inhabitant.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Common English Bible

⁹ I heard the LORD of heavenly forces say this: Many houses will become total ruins, large, fine houses, with no one living in them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ These things are in my ears, says the Lord of hosts. Otherwise, many houses, great and beautiful, will become desolate, without an inhabitant.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.

Isaiah 5:9 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21

to fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days that it lay desolate it kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.

Job 15:28

and has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no man should inhabit, which were destined to become heaps of ruins;

Job 20:21

There was nothing left after he had eaten; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy for unjust gain makes trouble for his household, but he who hates bribes will live.

Isaiah 22:14

The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you till you die,” says the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 27:10

For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness; there the calf grazes, there he lies down, and strips its branches.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Amos 3:7

Surely the Lord God does nothing, without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Amos 5:11

Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions 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 their wine.

Amos 6:11

For behold, the Lord commands, and the great house shall be smitten into fragments, and the little house into bits.

Matthew 22:7

The king was angry, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

Matthew 23:38

Behold, your house is forsaken and desolate.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.