Isaiah 5:9

God declares that the many fine houses gained through greed will be left empty and desolate. It announces that ill-gotten gain will be stripped away in judgment.

Cross-references · 10

• Matt 23:38Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
• Isa 22:14Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
• Amos 3:7Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
• Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
• Isa 5:6I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
• Isa 27:10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken, like the wilderness. The calf will feed there, and there he will lie down, and consume its branches.
• Isa 6:11–12Then I said, “Lord, how long?” He answered, “Until cities are waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land becomes utterly waste,
• Amos 6:11“For, behold, Yahweh commands, and the great house will be smashed to pieces, and the little house into bits.
• Matt 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
• 2 Chr 36:21to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

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