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The Lord Judges His Vineyard

How terrible it will be for you who get too many houses!
    How terrible for you who get too many fields!
Finally there won’t be any space left in the land.
    Then you will live all alone.

I heard the Lord who rules over all announce a message. He said,

“You can be sure that the great houses will become empty.
    The fine homes will be left with no one living in them.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine.
    360 pounds of seeds will produce only 36 pounds of grain.”

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Woes and Judgments

Woe(A) to you who add house to house
    and join field to field(B)
till no space is left
    and you live alone in the land.

The Lord Almighty(C) has declared in my hearing:(D)

“Surely the great houses will become desolate,(E)
    the fine mansions left without occupants.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[a] of wine;
    a homer[b] of seed will yield only an ephah[c] of grain.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters
  2. Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms
  3. Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

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

10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

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