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Isaiah 5:8
New English Translation
Isaiah 5:8
New English Translation
Disaster is Coming
8 Beware, those who accumulate houses,[a]
who also accumulate field after field[b]
until there is no land left,[c]
and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.[d]
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:8 tn Heb “Woe [to] those who make a house touch a house.”
- Isaiah 5:8 tn Heb “[who] bring a field near a field.”sn This verse does not condemn real estate endeavors per se, but refers to the way in which the rich bureaucrats of Judah accumulated property by exploiting the poor, in violation of the covenantal principle that the land belonged to God and that every family was to have its own portion of land. See the note at 1:23.
- Isaiah 5:8 tn Heb “until the end of the place”; NASB “until there is no more room.”
- Isaiah 5:8 tn Heb “and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.”
Isaiah 5:8
New King James Version
Isaiah 5:8
New King James Version
Impending Judgment on Excesses
8 Woe to those who [a]join (A)house to house;
They add field to field,
Till there is no place
Where they may dwell alone in the midst of the land!
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:8 Accumulate houses
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