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Woes to the Wicked

Isaiah 5:10

In 11 translations

BSB
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”Literally ten yoke of vineyard will yield a bath; that is, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day will yield approximately 5.8 gallons or 22 liters of wine.Literally and a homer of seed will yield an ephah; that is, a homer of seed (approximately 6.24 bushels or 220 liters) will yield a tenth of its weight in grain.
KJV
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
WEB
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”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.1 bath is about 22 liters or 5.8 U. S. gallons1 homer is about 220 liters or 6 bushels1 ephah is about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels or about 2 pecks—only one tenth of what was sown.
ASV
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.
LSV
For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, || And a homer of seed yields an ephah.
YLT
For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
DBY
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
DRC
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.
GNV
For ten acres of vines shall yelde one bath, and the seede of an homer shall yelde an ephah.
JPS
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
LXXE
For where ten yoke of oxen plough the land shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כִּ֗י עֲשֶׂ֨רֶת֙ צִמְדֵּי־כֶ֔רֶם יַעֲשׂ֖וּ בַּ֣ת אֶחָ֑ת וְזֶ֥רַע חֹ֖מֶר יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה אֵיפָֽה׃
LXX-Br
Οὗ γὰρ ἐργῶνται δέκα ζεύγη βοῶν, ποιήσει κεράμιον ἕν· καὶ ὁ σπείρων ἀρτάβας ἓξ, ποιήσει μέτρα τρία.

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  • Leviticus 26:26When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.
  • Haggai 1:6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
  • Haggai 2:16from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
  • Haggai 1:9–11You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.…
  • Leviticus 27:16If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.
  • Ezekiel 45:10–11You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the…
  • Joel 1:17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

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