Isaiah 5:8

The Scriptures 1998

Woe to those who join house to house, who add 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

But he dwells in ruined cities, in houses which no one lives in, which have been ready to become heaps.

Job 20:21

There is no left-over after he has eaten, therefore his good does not last.

Proverbs 15:27

He who is greedy for gain, troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes lives.

Ezekiel 11:15

“Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your kinsmen, and all the house of Yisra’ĕ

Ezekiel 33:24

“Son of man, they who inhabit those ruins in the land of Yisra’ĕ

Amos 1:13

Thus said יהוה, “For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I do not turn it back, because they ripped open the pregnant women in Gilʽ

Micah 2:1

Woe to those plotting wickedness, and working out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning they practise it, because it is in the might of their hand.

Micah 2:2

And they coveted fields and seized them, also houses, and took them away. And they oppressed a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Habakkuk 2:6

“Shall not all these lift up a proverb against him, and a mocking riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases what is not his! Till when is he to load on himself many pledges’?

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.