Isaiah 5:10

For why ten acres of vines shall make one pottle, and thirty bushels of seed shall make three bushels.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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

9These things be in the ears of me, (yea), the Lord of hosts (hath said); If many houses be not forsaken, great and fair, without dweller, (or If many houses be not abandoned, yea, large and beautiful, but with no inhabitants), believe ye not to me.

11Woe to you that rise altogether early to follow drunkenness, and to drink till to eventide, that ye burn with wine. (Woe to you who rise up early to follow drunkenness, and drink until the evening, so that ye burn with wine.)

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Cross References

Exodus 37:22therefore the little roundels, or balls, and the shafts thereof, were all beaten out with hammer, of purest gold. (and so the little balls, and its rods, were all made out of pure gold, beaten out with a hammer.)

Leviticus 27:16That if a man avoweth the field of his possession, and halloweth it to the Lord, the price shall be deemed by the measure of [the] seed, (or And if a man voweth the field of his possession, and dedicateth it to the Lord, its value shall be determined by the measure of its seed); if the field is sown with thirty bushels of barley, it shall be sold for fifty shekels of silver.

Joel 1:17Beasts waxed rotten in their drit. Barns be destroyed, cellars be destroyed, for wheat is shamed. (The seed grew rotten in the dirt, or the dry earth. The barns be empty, and the cellars be bare, for the corn, or the grain, is parched, or dried up.)

Haggai 1:9Ye beheld to more, and lo! it is made less; and ye brought into the house, and I blew it out. For what cause, saith the Lord of hosts? for mine house is desert (ed), and ye hasten each man into his house. (For ye looked for more, and behold! it is made less; and ye brought (the harvest) back home, and I blew it out. For what reason, (or why), saith the Lord of hosts? because my House lieth in ruins, while each person hasteneth into 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 →

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