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Isaiah 5:8
His curse is against those who buy land in great swaths and develop huge housing tracts on them, giving each family little room to live. He promises in the next verse that many of those houses will lie empty, and all that land will yield little profit.
Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Economics in ProphecyRelated Topics: Crowding | Economics in Prophecy | Housing Projects | Housing Tracts | Real Estate Speculators
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