Isaiah 5:8

Isaiah 5:8 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

8Woe to you who add house to house

and join field to field

till no space is left

and you live alone in the land.

8¶Woe to those who attach house to house and join field to field,

Until there is no more room,

And you alone are a landowner in the midst of the land!

8Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field,

Until there is no more room,

So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

8¶Woe (judgment is coming) to those who join house to house and join field to field [to increase their holdings by depriving others],

Until there is no more room [for others],

So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!

8Woe to you who add house to house

and join field to field

until no place is left

and you live alone in the land.

8How terrible it will be for you who get too many houses!

How terrible for you who get too many fields!

Finally there won’t be any space left in the land.

Then you will live all alone.