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10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
    and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.[a](A)

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  1. 5.10 The Heb bath, homer, and ephah are measures of quantity

10 Joy and gladness are taken away
    from the fruitful field,
and in the vineyards no exultation is heard;
    no shouts are raised;
no treader treads out wine in the presses;
    the vintage shout is hushed.[a](A)

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  1. 16.10 Cn Compare Gk: Heb I have hushed

12 The vine withers;
    the fig tree droops.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple—
    all the trees of the field are dried up;
surely, joy withers away
    among the people.(A)

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16 how did you fare?[a] When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.(A)

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  1. 2.16 Gk: Heb since they were