Isaiah 5:10-12

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“For ten ^[a]acres of vineyard will yield [only] ^[b]one bath of wine,
And a homer (^[c]six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain.”
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Woe (judgment is coming) to those who rise early in the morning to pursue intoxicating drink,
Who stay up late in the night till wine inflames them!
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They have lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine at their feasts;
But they do not regard nor even pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 5:10 Lit teams of oxen, referring to the area of land that a team of oxen can plow in one day.
Isaiah 5:10 This is only a very rough approximation. The basic Hebrew unit of volume was an egg, which varied greatly, and the estimation was significantly larger than an ordinary chicken egg. A bath was set at 432 eggs—six to eight gallons.
Isaiah 5:10 The actual Hebrew measure was the volume of 4,320 eggs, and an ephah (like a bath, only a dry measure) was 432 eggs.