“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 middle of the land!”
Isaiah 5:8 (WEB)
Context Reading
6I will lay it a wasteland.It won’t be pruned or hoed,but it will grow briers and thorns.I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.” 7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,and the men of Judah his pleasant plant.He looked for justice, but behold, oppression,for righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress. 8Woe 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 middle of the land! 9In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,even great and beautiful, unoccupied. 10For ten acresof vineyard shall yield one bath,and a homerof seed shall yield an ephah.”