Judah’s Sins Denounced

Woe to those who add house to house(A)
and join field to field
until there is no more room
and you alone are left in the land.

I heard the Lord of Hosts say:

Indeed, many houses(B) will become desolate,
grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.
10 For a ten-acre[a] vineyard will yield
only six gallons,[b]
and 10 bushels[c] of seed will yield
only one bushel.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:10 Lit ten-yoke
  2. Isaiah 5:10 Lit one bath
  3. Isaiah 5:10 Lit one homer
  4. Isaiah 5:10 Lit [one] ephah

Woes on the Wicked

Ah! Those who join[a] house with house,
    they join field together with field
until there is no place[b]
    and you are caused to dwell alone in the midst of the land.

Yahweh of hosts said in my ears:

Surely[c] many houses shall become a desolation,
    large and beautiful ones without inhabitant.
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,[d]
and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:8 Literally “touch”
  2. Isaiah 5:8 Literally “an end of place”
  3. Isaiah 5:9 Literally “If not”
  4. Isaiah 5:10 A bath is a liquid measure
  5. Isaiah 5:10 An ephah is a dry measure equal to one-tenth of a homer