Woe unto them that join house to house, and lay field to field, till there be no [a]place, that ye may be placed by yourselves in the midst of the earth.

This is in mine [b]ears, saith the Lord of hosts. Surely many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair without inhabitant.

10 For ten acres of vines shall yield one [c]bath, and the seed of an [d]homer shall yield an [e]ephah.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:8 To wit, for the poor to dwell in.
  2. Isaiah 5:9 I have heard the complaint and cry of the poor.
  3. Isaiah 5:10 Which containeth about ten pottels: so that every acre should but yield one pottel.
  4. Isaiah 5:10 Which containeth an hundred pottels.
  5. Isaiah 5:10 An Ephah containeth ten pottels and is in dry things as much as Bath is in liquors.

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