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In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,
    even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
10 For ten acres[a] of vineyard shall yield one bath,[b]
    and a homer[c] of seed shall yield an ephah.”[d]
11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink,
    who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

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Footnotes

  1. 5:10 literally, ten yokes, or the amount of land that ten yokes of oxen can plow in one day, which is about 10 acres or 4 hectares.
  2. 5:10 1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons
  3. 5:10 1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels
  4. 5:10 1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown.