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Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“For ten acres of vineyard will yield <i>only</i> one bath <i>of wine,</i> And a homer of seed will yield <i>only</i> an ephah of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine, And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“For ten acres of vineyard will yield <i>only</i> one bath <i>of wine,</i> And a homer of seed will yield <i>but</i> an ephah of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard will yield <i>only</i> one bath <i>of wine</i>, And a homer of seed will yield <i>but</i> an ephah <i>of grain</i>.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“For ten acres of vineyard will yield [only] one bath <i>of wine</i>, And a homer (six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only six gallons of wine, and ten bushels of seed will yield only one bushel of grain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only six gallons, and 10 bushels of seed will yield only one bushel. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Four hectares of grapevines will produce only 27 liters of juice, and 180 liters of seed will produce merely 18 liters of grain. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />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." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard will produce only one bath, and one omer of seed will produce only one ephah." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.” <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, "" And a homer of seed yields an ephah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For ten measures of a vineyard shall make one bath, and the seed of an omer shall make an ephah.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Then ten acres of vineyard will produce one small bottle of wine, and thirty measures of seed will produce three measures of grain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because ten yokes of land of a vineyard shall make one bath(eight and a half gallons) and the seed of a cor – (eleven bushels) shall make a seah (three gallons)<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />For where ten yoke of oxen plough <i>the land</i> shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/5-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=963" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/5.htm">Woes to the Wicked</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">9</span>I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied. <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/6235.htm" title="6235: ‘ă·śe·reṯ (Number-msc) -- Ten. Masculine of term aasarah; from asar; ten.">ten</a> <a href="/hebrew/6776.htm" title="6776: ṣim·dê- (N-mpc) -- A couple, pair. A yoke or team; hence, an acre.">acres</a> <a href="/hebrew/3754.htm" title="3754: ḵe·rem (N-ms) -- A vineyard. From an unused root of uncertain meaning; a garden or vineyard.">of vineyard</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ya·‘ă·śū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">will yield</a> <a href="/hebrew/259.htm" title="259: ’e·ḥāṯ (Number-fs) -- One. A numeral from 'achad; properly, united, i.e. One; or first.">but a</a> <a href="/hebrew/1324.htm" title="1324: baṯ (N-ms) -- A bath (a Heb. measure). Probably from the same as battah; a bath or Hebrew measure of liquids.">bath of wine,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2563.htm" title="2563: ḥō·mer (N-ms) -- From chamar; properly, a bubbling up, i.e. Of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay; also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure.">and a homer</a> <a href="/hebrew/2233.htm" title="2233: wə·ze·ra‘ (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- A sowing, seed, offspring. From zara'; seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity.">of seed</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ya·‘ă·śeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">only</a> <a href="/hebrew/374.htm" title="374: ’ê·p̄āh (N-fs) -- An ephah (a measure of grain). Or ephah; of Egyptian derivation; an ephah or measure for grain; hence, a measure in general.">an ephah of grain.”</a> </span><span class="reftext">11</span>Woe to those who rise early in the morning in pursuit of strong drink, who linger into the evening, to be inflamed by wine.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/26-26.htm">Leviticus 26:26</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/haggai/1-6.htm">Haggai 1:6</a></span><br />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.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-15.htm">Micah 6:15</a></span><br />You will sow but not reap; you will press olives but not anoint yourselves with oil; you will tread grapes but not drink the wine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/28-38.htm">Deuteronomy 28:38-40</a></span><br />You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it. / You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them. / You will have olive trees throughout your territory but will never anoint yourself with oil, because the olives will drop off.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-11.htm">Amos 5:11</a></span><br />Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/1-10.htm">Joel 1:10-12</a></span><br />The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails. / Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished. / The grapevine is dried up, and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, palm, and apple—all the trees of the orchard—are withered. Surely the joy of mankind has dried up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/12-13.htm">Jeremiah 12:13</a></span><br />They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/9-2.htm">Hosea 9:2</a></span><br />The threshing floor and winepress will not feed them, and the new wine will fail them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/4-16.htm">Ezekiel 4:16</a></span><br />Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/107-34.htm">Psalm 107:34</a></span><br />and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-23.htm">Matthew 13:23</a></span><br />But the seed sown on good soil is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and produces a crop—a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/4-20.htm">Mark 4:20</a></span><br />Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop—thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/8-8.htm">Luke 8:8</a></span><br />Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprang up and produced a crop—a hundredfold.” As Jesus said this, He called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/15-5.htm">John 15:5</a></span><br />I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/7-4.htm">Romans 7:4</a></span><br />Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.</p><p class="hdg">one</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/leviticus/27-16.htm">Leviticus 27:16</a></b></br> And if a man shall sanctify unto the LORD <i>some part</i> of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed <i>shall be valued</i> at fifty shekels of silver.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/45-10.htm">Ezekiel 45:10,11</a></b></br> Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/joel/1-17.htm">Joel 1:17</a></b></br> The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/esther/4-7.htm">Amount</a> <a href="/songs/7-4.htm">Bath</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-10.htm">Ephah</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/songs/7-2.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-9.htm">Great</a> <a href="/leviticus/27-16.htm">Homer</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-9.htm">Measure</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-4.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-4.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-9.htm">Small</a> <a href="/songs/5-10.htm">Ten</a> <a href="/songs/7-12.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-7.htm">Vineyard</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-2.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-4.htm">Yield</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-12.htm">Yieldeth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/41-29.htm">Amount</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-10.htm">Bath</a> <a href="/isaiah/60-6.htm">Ephah</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-11.htm">Fields</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-3.htm">Grain</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-15.htm">Great</a> <a href="/ezekiel/45-11.htm">Homer</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-14.htm">Measure</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-18.htm">Produce</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-13.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-13.htm">Small</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-8.htm">Ten</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-2.htm">Vineyard</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-11.htm">Wine</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-23.htm">Yield</a> <a href="/ezekiel/31-10.htm">Yieldeth</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/5-1.htm">Under the parable of a vineyard, God excuses his severe judgment</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/5-8.htm">His judgments upon covetousness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/5-11.htm">Upon lasciviousness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/5-13.htm">Upon impiety</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/5-20.htm">And upon injustice</a></span><br><span class="reftext">26. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/5-26.htm">The executioners of God's judgments</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In ancient Israel, vineyards were a symbol of prosperity and blessing. A "bath" is a small liquid measure, approximately 6 gallons or 22 liters, indicating a drastically reduced yield. This reflects the curse of unfruitfulness due to the people's sin, as seen in <a href="/deuteronomy/28-38.htm">Deuteronomy 28:38-39</a>, where disobedience leads to agricultural failure. The imagery of a vineyard is also used in <a href="/isaiah/5.htm">Isaiah 5:1-7</a>, where Israel is depicted as a vineyard that produces wild grapes instead of good fruit, symbolizing their moral and spiritual failure.<p><b>and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.</b><br>A "homer" is a large measure of dry goods, about 220 liters or 6 bushels, while an "ephah" is much smaller, about 22 liters or 0.6 bushels. This drastic reduction in yield signifies the futility of labor without God's blessing. The disparity between the amount of seed sown and the harvest reaped underscores the theme of judgment and the reversal of expected blessings. This echoes the covenant curses in <a href="/leviticus/26-16.htm">Leviticus 26:16</a> and <a href="/haggai/1-6.htm">Haggai 1:6</a>, where disobedience leads to diminished returns. The imagery serves as a warning to the people of God to remain faithful and obedient to His commandments, as their prosperity is directly linked to their covenant relationship with Him.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>The prophet who conveyed God's messages to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. He warned them of the consequences of their disobedience and called them to repentance.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah_and_jerusalem.htm">Judah and Jerusalem</a></b><br>The primary audience of Isaiah's prophecies. They were experiencing moral and spiritual decline, which Isaiah addressed through his messages.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/v/vineyard.htm">Vineyard</a></b><br>Symbolic of Israel, often used in the Bible to represent God's people and their spiritual state. In this context, it represents the fruitlessness of their efforts due to disobedience.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/b/bath_and_homer.htm">Bath and Homer</a></b><br>Ancient units of measurement. A "bath" is a small measure of liquid, and a "homer" is a larger measure of dry goods. Their use here emphasizes the disparity between effort and yield.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/e/ephah.htm">Ephah</a></b><br>Another unit of dry measure, smaller than a homer, highlighting the meager return on what should have been a plentiful harvest.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_disobedience.htm">Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br><a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10</a> serves as a stark reminder that turning away from God's commands leads to fruitlessness and frustration. Our efforts without God's blessing are in vain.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_fruitfulness.htm">Spiritual Fruitfulness</a></b><br>Just as a vineyard is expected to produce wine, our lives should produce spiritual fruit. This requires abiding in Christ and living according to His Word.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_justice_and_mercy.htm">God's Justice and Mercy</a></b><br>While God is just and allows consequences for disobedience, His warnings through prophets like Isaiah are acts of mercy, calling us back to Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/e/evaluating_our_efforts.htm">Evaluating Our Efforts</a></b><br>Reflect on whether our efforts are aligned with God's will. Are we investing in things that yield eternal value, or are we laboring in vain?<br><br><b><a href="/topical/d/dependence_on_god.htm">Dependence on God</a></b><br>True success and fruitfulness come from reliance on God. We must seek His guidance and blessing in all our endeavors.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_for_isaiah_5_10_shortages.htm">Isaiah 5:10: Is there any historical or archaeological evidence supporting the extreme agricultural shortages described here? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_stress_about_tomorrow_now.htm">Why did God's vineyard produce only wild grapes?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_god_destroying_his_vineyard_contradict_love.htm">Isaiah 5:1-7: Does God's destruction of His own vineyard contradict the idea of a loving and merciful deity?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/verify_historical_basis_of_jesus's_'true_vine'.htm">John 15:1-2: How can we verify, historically or otherwise, that Jesus's 'true vine' metaphor reflects anything beyond cultural symbolism and legend?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) <span class= "bld">Ten acres.</span>--The disproportion was as great as that which we have seen in recent times in vine countries suffering from the <span class= "ital">Phylloxera </span>or the <span class= "ital">oidium, </span>or in the potato failures of Ireland. The <span class= "ital">bath </span>was equal to seventy-two Roman sextarii (Jos. <span class= "ital">Ant. viii.</span> 2-9), about seven and a half gallons, and this was to be the whole produce of ten acres, from which an average yield of 500 <span class= "ital">baths </span>might have been expected. The Hebrew word for "acre" means primarily the ground that could be ploughed in a day by a yoke of oxen.<p><span class= "bld">The seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.</span>--Here also there is an all but total failure. The <span class= "ital">homer </span>was a dry measure of thirty-two pecks, and the <span class= "ital">ephah </span>was equal to one-tenth of a <span class= "ital">homer </span>(<a href="/ezekiel/45-11.htm" title="The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.">Ezekiel 45:11</a>; <a href="/exodus/16-36.htm" title="Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.">Exodus 16:36</a>). This scanty crop--Ruth's gleanings for a single day (<a href="/ruth/2-17.htm" title="So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley.">Ruth 2:17</a>)--one-tenth of the seed sown, was to take the place of the "thirtyfold, sixty, and a hundredfold" (<a href="/genesis/26-12.htm" title="Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundred times: and the LORD blessed him.">Genesis 26:12</a>; <a href="/matthew/13-8.htm" title="But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundred times, some sixty times, some thirty times.">Matthew 13:8</a>) of average or prosperous years. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 10.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath.</span> The greed of adding field to field will he punished by the curse of barrenness, which God will send upon the laud. Dr. Kay-calculates that ten acres (Roman) of vineyard ought to yield upon the average five hundred baths (or four thousand gallons) instead of one bath (eight gallons). <span class="cmt_word">An homer... an ephah.</span> The "ephah" was the tenth-part of a "homer" (<a href="/ezekiel/45-11.htm">Ezekiel 45:11</a>). Corn lands should return only one-tenth part of the seed sown in them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/5-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">For</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֗י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ten</span><br /><span class="heb">עֲשֶׂ֙רֶת֙</span> <span class="translit">(‘ă·śe·reṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6235.htm">Strong's 6235: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ten</span><br /><br /><span class="word">acres</span><br /><span class="heb">צִמְדֵּי־</span> <span class="translit">(ṣim·dê-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6776.htm">Strong's 6776: </a> </span><span class="str2">A couple, pair</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of vineyard</span><br /><span class="heb">כֶ֔רֶם</span> <span class="translit">(ḵe·rem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3754.htm">Strong's 3754: </a> </span><span class="str2">A garden, vineyard</span><br /><br /><span class="word">will yield</span><br /><span class="heb">יַעֲשׂ֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(ya·‘ă·śū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[but] a</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶחָ֑ת</span> <span class="translit">(’e·ḥāṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_259.htm">Strong's 259: </a> </span><span class="str2">United, one, first</span><br /><br /><span class="word">bath [of wine],</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּ֣ת</span> <span class="translit">(baṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1324.htm">Strong's 1324: </a> </span><span class="str2">A bath (a Hebrew measure)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and a homer</span><br /><span class="heb">חֹ֖מֶר</span> <span class="translit">(ḥō·mer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2563.htm">Strong's 2563: </a> </span><span class="str2">A bubbling up, of water, a wave, of earth, mire, clay, a heap, a chomer, dry measure</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of seed</span><br /><span class="heb">וְזֶ֥רַע</span> <span class="translit">(wə·ze·ra‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2233.htm">Strong's 2233: </a> </span><span class="str2">Seed, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">[only]</span><br /><span class="heb">יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(ya·‘ă·śeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">an ephah [of grain].”</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵיפָֽה׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ê·p̄āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_374.htm">Strong's 374: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ephah -- an ephah (a measure of grain)</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/5-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 5:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 5:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/5-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 5:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 5:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>