Isaiah 5:8

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Cross References

Job 15:28

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

Job 20:21

There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, your brothers, even your brothers, the men of your relatives, and all the house of Yisra'el, all of them, [are they] to whom the inhabitants of Yerushalayim have said, Get you far from the LORD; to us is this land given for a possession.

Ezekiel 33:24

Son of man, they who inhabit those waste places in Eretz-Yisra'el speak, saying, Avraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

Amos 1:13

Thus says the LORD: *For three transgressions of the children of `Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gil`ad, that they may enlarge their border.

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Habakkuk 2:6

Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

Matthew 23:13

*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.