Isaiah 5:9

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

I heard the Lord All-Powerful make this oath: “I swear, all these houses will be destroyed. These big, fancy houses will be empty.

Cross References

Matthew 23:38

Now your house will be left completely empty.

Amos 5:11

You take unfair taxes from the poor. You take loads of wheat from them. You build fancy houses with cut stone, but you will not live in them. You plant beautiful vineyards, but you will not drink the wine from them.

Amos 3:7

When the Lord GOD decides to do something, he will first tell his servants, the prophets.

Isaiah 22:14

The Lord All-Powerful said this to me and I heard it with my own ears: “You are guilty of doing wrong, and I promise that you will die before this guilt is forgiven.” The Lord GOD All-Powerful said these things.

Matthew 22:7

The king was very angry. He sent his army to kill those who murdered his servants. And the army burned their city.

Amos 6:11

Look, the Lord will give the command, and the large houses will be broken to pieces, and the small houses will be broken to small pieces.

Isaiah 27:10

The great city will be empty; it will be like a desert. All the people will be gone—they will run away. The city will be like an open pasture. Young cattle will eat grass there. The cattle will eat leaves from the branches of the vines.

Isaiah 5:6

I will turn my vineyard into useless land. No one will care for the plants or work in the field. Weeds and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”

2 Chronicles 36:21

The land of Judah became an empty desert and stayed that way for 70 years. All this time the land rested to make up for the Sabbath rests that the people had not kept. This is just what the Lord said would happen in the warning he gave through the prophet Jeremiah.

James 5:4

People worked in your fields, but you did not pay them. They are crying out against you. They harvested your crops. Now the Lord All-Powerful has heard their cries.

Job 15:28

but his town will be ruined; his home will be destroyed; his house will be empty.

Job 20:21

After filling himself, there is nothing left. His success will not continue.

Proverbs 15:27

Whoever takes money to do wrong invites disaster. Refuse such gifts, and you will live.