Isaiah 5:8

Disaster is Coming

5:8 Those who accumulate houses are as good as dead, ¹ 

those who also accumulate landed property ² 

until there is no land left, ³ 

and you are the only landowners remaining within the land. ⁴ 

Isaiah 39:4

39:4 Isaiah ⁵  asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.”

Isaiah 46:3

46:3 “Listen to me, O family of Jacob, ⁶ 

all you who are left from the family of Israel, ⁷ 

you who have been carried from birth, ⁸ 

you who have been supported from the time you left the womb. ⁹ 

¹ tn Heb “Woe [to] those who make a house touch a house.” The exclamation הוֹי (hoy, “woe, ah”) was used in funeral laments (see 1 Kgs 13:30; Jer 22:18; 34:5) and carries the connotation of death.

² tn Heb “[who] bring a field near a field.”

³ tn Heb “until the end of the place”; NASB “until there is no more room.”

⁴ tn Heb “and you are made to dwell alone in the midst of the land.”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “house of Jacob”; TEV “descendants of Jacob.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and all the remnant of the house of Israel.”

¹¹ tn Heb “from the womb” (so NRSV); KJV “from the belly”; NAB “from your infancy.”

¹² tn Heb “who have been lifted up from the womb.”