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Isaiah 5:10

8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

9 I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

12 At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
KJV
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
WEB
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
ASV
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
DARBY
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
BLB
For a ten yoke vineyard will yield one bath, and a homer of seed will yield an ephah.
ÅB
for en vingård på ti dagers plogland skal gi en bat[^1], og en homers utsæd skal gi en efa[^2].
OTB
En ti mål stor vingård vil bare gi en bat med vin, og en homer med såkorn vil bare gi en efa med korn.»
B1930
for en vingård på ti dagers plogland skal gi en bat, og en homers utsæd skal gi en efa. / < omkring 36 liter.> / < en homer var ti efa, og en efa lik en bat.>

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Cross references

  • Leviticus 26:26

    When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

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  • Haggai 2:16

    from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

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  • Haggai 1:6

    You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

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  • Haggai 1:9–11

    You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

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  • Leviticus 27:16

    If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

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  • Joel 1:17

    The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

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  • Ezekiel 45:10–11

    You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

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