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


In Context

6 I 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.|

7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

8 Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

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

10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.|

11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:9The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing: "Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.

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 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.