⁸ You buy up property so others have no place to live. Your homes are built on great estates so you can be alone in the midst of the earth! ⁹ But the Lord Almighty has sworn your awful fate—with my own ears I heard him say, “Many a beautiful home will lie deserted, their owners killed or gone. ¹⁰ An acre of vineyard will not produce a gallon of juice! Ten bushels of seed will yield a one-bushel crop!”