Woe unto them... - The prophet now proceeds to specify some of the crimes to which he had referred in the parable of the v…

Woe unto them that join house to house. —The series of “Woes” that follows has no precedent in the teaching of earlier pr…

In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. Yea, ten acres of viney…

Woe to them that join house to house and field to field. He now rebukes their insatiable avarice and covetousness, from which acts of chea…

Woe unto them that join house to house
Or "O you that join"; for, as Aben Ezra has, it signifies calling, as in ([Re…

Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. It is not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purch…

1. I will sing to my beloved. Here the prophet denounces the third sin of the two tribes—their abuse of things—using a metaphor. Th…