Isaiah 5:8

Modern English Version

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is no more space where they may live alone in the midst of the land!

Cross References

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them. They defraud a man of his house, and a fellow man of his inheritance.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

Ezekiel 33:24

Son of man, those who inhabit these wastes in the land of Israel are saying, “Abraham was one, yet he inherited the land. But to us who are many, the land has been given for an inheritance.”

Ezekiel 11:15

Son of man, your brothers, your kindred, your fellow captives, and all the house of Israel, all of them, are they to whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “Go far from the Lord. This land has been given to us as a possession.”

Job 15:28

He dwells in desolate cities and in houses which no man inhabits, which are ready to become heaps.

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, in order to enlarge their border.

Job 20:21

Nothing is left for him to eat; therefore his prosperity will not endure.

Proverbs 15:27

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

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who conceive wickedness, to those who devise evil on their beds! At morning’s light they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not all these take up a taunt against him, with satire and riddles, and say, “Woe to him who increases what is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with heavy debts!”