Isaiah 5:9 - Exposition

Either something has fallen out in the first clause of this verse, or there is a most unusual ellipse of the verb " said " which our translators have supplied, very properly. There seems to be nothing emphatic in the words, "on mine ears" ( see Isaiah 22:14 ; Ezekiel 9:1 , Ezekiel 9:5 ; Ezekiel 10:13 ). Many houses shall be desolate. The greed of adding house to house will be punished by the death of those who have so sinned, and the extinction of their families, either through war, or through a more direct divine judgment.