Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 5:9

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

I heard God speak what I am now about to utter. Heb. In the ears of the Lord. Which may relate either, 1. to the foregoing Words; The Cry of your Sins, and of the Oppressed, is come into God's Ears; he hears and sees it, and will certainly punish it: Or, 2. to the following Clause▪ which, being of great importance, he ushers in with an Oath; I speak it in God's Ears, as well as in yours; I call God to witness the Truth of what I say.

The Houses which you have so greedily coveted, shall cast you out, and become desolate.

Marginal references: Or, this is in mine ears, saith the LORD, &c.; Heb. If not, &c.