Isaiah 5:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.””
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“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 · Public Domain (CC0)“Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 5:10 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 37:22The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
- Leviticus 26:26When 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.
- Leviticus 27:16If 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.
- Ezekiel 45:10You must use honest scales, a just ephah, and a just bath.
- Joel 1:17The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away.
- Haggai 1:6You 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 1:9You 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.
- Haggai 2:16from 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.
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