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Isaiah 5:8 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 5 · verse 8
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!Isaiah 5:8 · King James Version
Isaiah 5:8 in context
6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
8Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
9In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- placedyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- housebayitha houseH1004 →
- fieldsâdeha fieldH7704 →
- placemâqôwmproperly, a standingH4725 →
- midstqerebproperly, the nearest partH7130 →
- joinnâgaʻproperly, to touchH5060 →
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The world and the flesh are the two great enemies that we are in danger of being overpowered by; yet we are in no danger if we do not ourselves yield to them. Eagerness of the world, and indulgence of the flesh, are the two sins against which the prophet, in God's name, here denounces woes.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-17