Isaiah 5:10
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 37:22Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
Leviticus 27:16And if a man shall sanctify to LORD part of the field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the sowing of it, the sowing of a homer of barley at fifty shekels of silver.
Joel 1:17The seeds rot under their clods. The garners are laid desolate. The barns are broken down. For the grain is withered.
Haggai 1:9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:9-18
Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow… Read the whole commentary →