Isaiah 5:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But the LORD All-Powerful has made this promise to me: Those large and beautiful homes will be left empty, with no one to take care of them.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:21

Judah was an empty desert, and it stayed that way for seventy years, to make up for all the years it was not allowed to rest. These things happened just as Jeremiah the LORD's prophet had said.

Job 15:28

but they will live in the ruins of deserted towns.

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.

Isaiah 22:14

The LORD All-Powerful has spoken to me this solemn promise: “I won't forgive them for this, not as long as they live.”

Isaiah 27:10

Fortress cities are left like a desert where no one lives. Cattle walk through the ruins, stripping the trees bare.

Isaiah 5:6

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor hoed; it will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Amos 3:7

Whatever the LORD God plans to do, he tells his servants, the prophets.

Amos 5:11

you abuse the poor and demand heavy taxes from them. You have built expensive homes, but you won't enjoy them; you have planted vineyards, but you will get no wine.

Amos 6:11

At the LORD's command, houses great and small will be smashed to pieces.

Matthew 22:7

This made the king so furious that he sent an army to kill those murderers and burn down their city.

Matthew 23:38

And now your temple will be deserted.

James 5:4

You refused to pay the people who worked in your fields, and now their unpaid wages are shouting out against you. The Lord All-Powerful has heard the cries of the workers who harvested your crops.