Bible Strands
Isaiah 5:9
I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh of Hosts declares judgment to the people of Israel at the conclusion of a prophetic oracle warning against the accumulation of property and land.
The words — בָּתִים (ba.Tim) = houses and לְשַׁמָּה (le./sha.Mah) = into a waste or desolation.
The thread — The declaration motif connects to Amos 3:7, the desolation warning parallels Matthew 23:38, and the judgment context aligns with Isaiah 22:14.
Why it lands — The text states that accumulated dwellings will stand empty as a direct result of divine decree, requiring the reader to recognize that human accumulation cannot override sovereign judgment.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
Cross-references
- Matthew 23:38 Look, your house is left to you desolate.
- Isaiah 22:14 The 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 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
- Amos 5:11 Therefore, 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.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21 So 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 spoken through Jeremiah.
- Isaiah 5:6 I 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 6:11 Then 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 27:10 For 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 6:11 For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
- Matthew 22:7 The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.