Isaiah 5:10
Good News Translation
The grapevines growing on five acres of land will yield only five gallons of wine. Ten bushels of seed will produce only one bushel of grain."

New Revised Standard Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.

Contemporary English Version
Four hectares of grapevines will produce only 27 liters of juice, and 180 liters of seed will produce merely 18 liters of grain.

New American Bible
Ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.

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Leviticus 27:16 And if he vow the field of his possession, and consecrate it to the Lord, the price shall be rated according to the measure of the seed. If the ground be sown with thirty bushels of barley, let it be sold for fifty sicles of silver.

Ezekiel 45:10,11 You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate. . . .

Joel 1:17 The beasts have rotted in their dung, the barns are destroyed, the storehouses are broken down: because the corn is confounded.

Haggai 1:9-11 You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house. . . .

Context
Woes to the Wicked
9These things are in my ears, saith the Lord of hosts: Unless many great and fair houses shall become desolate, without an inhabitant. 10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.11Woe to you that rise up early in the morning to follow drunkenness, and to drink in the evening, to be inflamed with wine.…
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26
After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,

Deuteronomy 28:38
Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.

Deuteronomy 28:39
Thou shalt plant a vineyard, and dig it, and shalt not drink the wine, nor gather any thing thereof: because it shall be wasted with worms.

Isaiah 7:23
And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver, shall become thorns and briers.

Isaiah 32:13
Upon the land of my people shall thorns and briers come up: how much more upon all the houses of joy, of the city that rejoiced?

Jeremiah 48:33
Joy and gladness is taken away from Carmel, and from the land of Moab, and I have taken away the wine out of the presses: the treader of the grapes shall not sing the accustomed cheerful tune.

Ezekiel 45:10
You shall have just balances, and a just ephi, and a just bate.

Ezekiel 45:11
The ephi and the bate shall be equal, and of one measure: that the bate may contain the tenth part of a core, and the ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight shall be equal according to the measure of a core.

Haggai 1:6
You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.

Haggai 2:16
When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty.

Isaiah 5:9
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