Isaiah 5:10 “For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer o…”

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain. ”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

World English Bible

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”

American Standard Version

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Geneva Bible 1599

For ten acres of vines shall yelde one bath, and the seede of an homer shall yelde an ephah.

Darby Translation

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.

Young's Literal Translation

For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.

Bible in Basic English

For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

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Cross references

“one”

Haggai 1:9–11 Leviticus 27:16 Joel 1:17 Ezekiel 45:10 Ezekiel 45:11

Haggai 1:9–11 · BSB

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Leviticus 27:16 · BSB

If a man consecrates to the LORD a parcel of his land, then your valuation shall be proportional to the seed required for it—fifty shekels of silver for every homer of barley seed.

Joel 1:17 · BSB

The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.

Ezekiel 45:10 · BSB

You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.

Ezekiel 45:11 · BSB

The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity so that the bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure for both.

Also

Leviticus 26:26 Haggai 1:6 Haggai 2:16

Leviticus 26:26 · BSB

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:6 · BSB

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

Haggai 2:16 · BSB

from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

11Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.

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