Isaiah 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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!

Woe unto them that join house to house ... field to field - (Leviticus 25:13-16; Micah 2:2) The jubilee restoration of possessions was intended as a guard against avarice.

Till (there be) no place - left for anyone else.

That they may be placed - Hebrew, and ye be placed ( huwshabtem (H3427)).

In the midst of the earth - the land. In righteous retribution there was but a scanty few, one here and one there, to be "left" by the enemy 'in the midst of the land,' (Isaiah 7:22, margin)

Isaiah 5:8

8 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!