Isaiah 5:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Woe to those who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!

Cross References

Job 15:28

they will live in desolate cities, in houses that no one should inhabit, houses destined to become heaps of ruins;

Job 20:21

There was nothing left after they had eaten; therefore their prosperity will not endure.

Proverbs 15:27

Those greedy for unjust gain make trouble for their households, but those who hate bribes will live.

Ezekiel 11:15

Mortal, your kinsfolk, your own kin, your fellow exiles, the whole house of Israel, all of them, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, “Stay far from the Lord; to us this land is given for a possession.”

Ezekiel 33:24

Mortal, the inhabitants of these waste places in the land of Israel keep saying, “Abraham was only one man, yet he got possession of the land, but we are many; the land is surely given us to possess.”

Amos 1:13

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

Micah 2:1

Woe to those who devise wickedness and evil deeds on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in their power.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.

Habakkuk 2:6

Shall not everyone taunt such people and, with mocking riddles, say about them, “Alas for you who heap up what is not your own!” How long will you load yourselves with goods taken in pledge?

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.