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How terrible it will be for you who add more houses to your houses
    and more fields to your fields.
Finally there is no room left for other people.
    Then you are left alone in the land.

The Lord of heaven’s armies said this to me:

“The fine houses will be destroyed.
    The large and beautiful houses will be left empty.
10 At that time a ten-acre vineyard will make only six gallons of wine.
    And ten bushels of seed will grow only half a bushel of grain.”

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Woes and Judgments

Woe(A) to you who add house to house
    and join field to field(B)
till no space is left
    and you live alone in the land.

The Lord Almighty(C) has declared in my hearing:(D)

“Surely the great houses will become desolate,(E)
    the fine mansions left without occupants.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[a] of wine;
    a homer[b] of seed will yield only an ephah[c] of grain.”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters
  2. Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms
  3. Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms