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Isaiah 5

Isaiah 5:10

Woes to the Wicked · Isaiah 5:8–30
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Translations

Modern
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
Traditional
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Literal
For a ten yoke vineyard will yield one bath, and a homer of seed will yield an ephah.
Latin
Decem enim jugera vinearum facient lagunculam unam, et triginta modii sementis facient modios tres.

Original

Hebrew
English
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

Notes

Isaiah 5:10

As with drought (Isaiah 5:5–6), the reduction of crops was at times a divine judgment (see Haggai 1:6, 9; 2:16).

Isaiah 5:8–10

Woe: The first warning of judgment was against oppressive greed. People took properties, like houses and fields, illegally. The new owners were bullies who used every method to get richer at the expense of the poor (see 1 Kings 21:1–29; Amos 2:6–7).

Isaiah 5:8–23

This section contains six pronouncements of sorrow. They are six warnings of dreadful judgment (Isaiah 5:8, 11, 18, 20, 21, 22). These sorrows highlight some of the "sour grapes" produced by the vineyard of Israel (5:1–7).

Isaiah 5:1–30

The prophet delivered judgment through a song (Isaiah 5:1–7) and prophecies of sorrow (5:8–30). Although Israel's future will be pure and in fellowship with God (Isaiah 4:2–6), it must address the current sinful state of the people and their leaders.

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Measurements

  • a bath of wine: About 5.8 gal (22 l)
  • an ephah of grain: About 6.24 bu (220 l)

Glossary

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Topics

Acre: The Indefinite Quantity of Land a Yoke of Oxen Could Plow in a Day Agriculture or Farming: Produce of, often Blasted Because of Sin Agriculture: Fruits Blasted Because of Sin Bath: A Hebrew Measure for Liquids Containing About Eight Gallons, Three Quarts Isaiah: Prophecies, Reproofs, and Exhortations of Denounces Existing Corruptions Measure: A Bath, About Eight Gallons and a Half Measure: A Homer, About Eleven Bushels, Equal to a Cor or Ten Ephahs Measure: An Ephah, Equal to Three Seah, and in Liquid, to a Bath, Containing About a Bushel and a Half Measures of Liquids and Solids: Bath or Ephah Measures of Liquids and Solids: Homer or Cor Seed: The Jews Punished by Its Yielding but Little Increase Vineyards in Unfavourable Seasons Produced but Little Wine