Isaiah 5:9

In 11 translations

BSB

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

KJV

In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.In…: or, This is in mine ears, saith the LORD, etcOf a…: Heb. If not, etc

WEB

In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

ASV

In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

LSV

Do many houses not become a desolation by the weapons of YHWH of Hosts? Great and good without inhabitant!

YLT

By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

DBY

In mine ears Jehovah of hosts [hath said], Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.

DRC

These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.

GNV

This is in mine cares, saith the Lord of hostes. Surely many houses shall be desolate, euen great, and faire without inhabitant.

JPS

In mine ears said the LORD of hosts: of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

LXXE

For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.

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WLC

בְּאָזְנָ֖י יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת אִם־לֹ֞א בָּתִּ֤ים רַבִּים֙ לְשַׁמָּ֣ה יִֽהְי֔וּ גְּדֹלִ֥ים וְטוֹבִ֖ים מֵאֵ֥ין יוֹשֵֽׁב׃

LXX-Br

Ἠκούσθη γὰρ εἰς τὰ ὦτα Κυρίου σαβαὼθ ταῦτα· ἐὰν γὰρ γένωνται οἰκίαι πολλαί, εἰς ἔρημον ἔσονται μεγάλαι καὶ καλαὶ, καὶ οὐκ ἔσονται οἱ ἐνοικοῦντες ἐν αὐταῖς.

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• Matthew 23:38Look, your house is left to you desolate.
• Isaiah 22:14The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.
• Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
• Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
• Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
• 2 Chronicles 36:21So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
• Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
• Amos 6:11For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
• Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
• Isaiah 6:11–12Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged, until the LORD has driven men far away…

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