KJV King James Version
In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
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Isaiah 5:9
In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
WEB World English Bible
In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
ASV American Standard Version
In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!
Surrounding context — Isaiah 5
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8 Woe unto them that join house to house, [that] lay field to field, till [there be] no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9 In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בְּאָזְנָ֖יH241 · o.zenearיְהוָ֣הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDצְבָא֑וֹתH6635 · tsa.vaarmyאִם־H518 · imifלֹ֞אH3808 · lonotבָּתִּ֤יםH1004 · betplaceרַבִּים֙H7227 · ravmanyלְשַׁמָּ֣הH8047 · sham.mahhorror: destroyedיִֽהְי֔וּH1961 · ha.yahto beגְּדֹלִ֥יםH1419 · ga.dolgreat: largeוְטוֹבִ֖יםH2896 · tovpleasantמֵאֵ֥יןH369 · a.yinnothingיוֹשֵֽׁב׃H3427 · ya.shavto dwell
Cross-references
Matthew 23:38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.Amos 5:11Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.Isaiah 22:14And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.Isaiah 27:10Yet the defenced city [shall be] desolate, [and] the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.Matthew 22:7But when the king heard [thereof], he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.Amos 6:11For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.Isaiah 6:11-12Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate,2 Chronicles 36:21To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: [for] as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
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