Isaiah 5:8-10

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Woes for the Wicked

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Woe (judgment is coming) to those who join house to house and join field to field [to increase their holdings by depriving others],
Until there is no more room [for others],
So that you have to live alone in the midst of the land!
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In my ears the Lord of hosts said, “Be assured that many houses will become desolate,
Even great and beautiful ones will be unoccupied.
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“For ten ^[a]acres of vineyard will yield [only] ^[b]one bath of wine,
And a homer (^[c]six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”

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Footnotes

Isaiah 5:10 Lit teams of oxen, referring to the area of land that a team of oxen can plow in one day.
Isaiah 5:10 This is only a very rough approximation. The basic Hebrew unit of volume was an egg, which varied greatly, and the estimation was significantly larger than an ordinary chicken egg. A bath was set at 432 eggs—six to eight gallons.
Isaiah 5:10 The actual Hebrew measure was the volume of 4,320 eggs, and an ephah (like a bath, only a dry measure) was 432 eggs.