Isaiah 5:8

Tree of Life Version

Woe to those who join house to house and merge field to field, until there is no room, and you will live alone in the midst of the land!

Cross References

Job 15:28

he lived in ruined cities, in houses which no one inhabits, which are ready to crumble into heaps.

Job 20:21

Nothing remains for him to devour; therefore his prosperity will not last.

Proverbs 15:27

One greedy for gain troubles his household, but whoever hates bribes will live.

Ezekiel 11:15

“Son of man, as for your kinsmen, your kinsmen, fellow exiles and the whole house of Israel—all of them—are those about whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, ‘Keep far away from Adonai! This land has been given to us for a possession!’”

Ezekiel 33:24

“Son of man, the inhabitants of these ruins in the land of Israel keep saying, ‘Abraham was only one, yet he inherited the land. Since we are many, the land is given to us as a possession.’

Amos 1:13

Thus says Adonai: For three crimes of the sons of Ammon even for four, I will not relent. For they ripped open pregnant women of Gilead to expand their territory,

Micah 2:1

Oy to them who scheme wickedness, who work out evil upon their beds! In the light of the morning, they do it, for the power is in their hands.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields, so they seize them, or houses, and take them away. So they oppress a man and his house— a man and his inheritance.

Habakkuk 2:6

Will not all take up a proverb against him or a scornful riddle about him? “Oy to one expanding what isn’t his! How long? Oy to one burdening himself with heavy debts!”

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you let those enter who are trying to go in.