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Woe to the Wicked

Woe to those who (A)join house to house,
    who add field to field,
until there is no more room,
    and you are made to dwell alone
    in the midst of the land.
The Lord of hosts has sworn in my hearing:
(B)“Surely many houses shall be desolate,
    large and beautiful houses, without inhabitant.
10 (C)For ten acres[a] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
    and a (D)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plough in a day
  2. Isaiah 5:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 litres; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 litres; an ephah was about 3/5 of a bushel or 22 litres