Isaiah 5:8

Contemporary English Version 1995

You are in for trouble! You take over house after house and field after field, until there is no room left for anyone else in all the land.

Cross References

Micah 2:2

You grab any field or house that you want; you cheat families out of homes and land.

Matthew 23:13

You Pharisees and teachers of the Law of Moses are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. You won't go in yourselves, and you keep others from going in.

Ezekiel 33:24

Ezekiel, son of man, the people living in the ruined cities of Israel are saying, “Abraham was just one man, and the Lord gave him this whole land of Israel. There are many of us, and so this land must be ours.”

Ezekiel 11:15

Ezekiel, son of man, the people living in Jerusalem claim that you and the other Israelites who were taken to Babylonia are too far away to worship me. They also claim that the land of Israel now belongs only to them.

Job 15:28

but they will live in the ruins of deserted towns.

Amos 1:13

The Lord said: I will punish Ammon for countless crimes, and I won't change my mind. In Gilead they ripped open pregnant women, just to take the land.

Job 20:21

But when nothing remains for them to grab, they will be nothing.

Proverbs 15:27

Being greedy causes trouble for your family, but you protect yourself by refusing bribes.

Micah 2:1

Doomed! You're doomed! At night you lie in bed, making evil plans. And when morning comes, you do what you've planned because you have the power.

Habakkuk 2:6

But they will be mocked with these words: You're doomed! You stored up stolen goods and cheated others of what belonged to them.