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Six Sins Condemned

How horrible it will be for you
    who acquire house after house and buy field after field
        until there’s nothing left
            and you have to live by yourself in the land.

With my own ears I heard Yahweh Tsebaoth say,
    “Many houses will become empty.
    Large, beautiful houses will be without people to live in them.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine,
    and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts 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