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The Book of Isaiah, Chapter 5, Verse 8

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For 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.
King James Version
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!
American Standard Version
Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!
New English Translation
Disaster is Coming Beware, those who accumulate houses, who also accumulate landed property until there is no land left, and you are the only landowners remaining within the land.
World English Bible
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 midst of the land!
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In mine ears [said] the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, [even] great and fair, without inhabitant.
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Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, [that] they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, [till] wine inflame them!
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And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
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Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because [they have] no knowledge: and their honourable men [are] famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
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Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.
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And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled:
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But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
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Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
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Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: