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Isaiah 5:9

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
בְּאָזְנָ֖יbe.'a.ze.Naiin ears myH241 →
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
צְבָא֑וֹתtze.va.'otof hostsH6635 →
אִם־'im-ifH518 →
לֹ֞אlo'notH3808 →
בָּתִּ֤יםba.TimhousesH1004 →
רַבִּים֙ra.BimmanyH7227 →
לְשַׁמָּ֣הle.sha.Mah<into> a wasteH8047 →
יִֽהְי֔וּyih.Yuthey will becomeH1961 →
גְּדֹלִ֥יםge.do.Limgreat [houses]H1419 →
וְטוֹבִ֖יםve.to.Vimand good [houses]H2896 →
מֵאֵ֥יןme.'Einfrom notH369 →
יוֹשֵֽׁב׃yo.ShevinhabitantH3427 →

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Matthew 23:38Look, your house is left to you desolate.Jeremiah 4:7A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.Amos 3:15I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.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 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.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.Amos 6:11For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”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.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,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.”Isaiah 28:14Therefore hear the word of the LORD, O scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem.Isaiah 32:14For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—Jeremiah 2:15The young lions have roared at him; they have growled with a loud voice. They have laid waste his land; his cities lie in ruins, without inhabitant.Jeremiah 39:8The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.2 Kings 19:17Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.Leviticus 26:32And I will lay waste the land, so that your enemies who dwell in it will be appalled.

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About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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