9The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: "Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.


In Context

6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there. I will command the clouds not to rain on it."

7 The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the garden of his delight. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.

9 The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: "Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.

10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine, a homer of seed only an ephah of grain."

11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.

Isaiah 5:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:9These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:9In mine ears'saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9In mine ears Jehovah of hosts hath said, Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:9In mine ears saith the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: |Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:9By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:9In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.