Isaiah 5:10

Brenton's Septuagint

For where ten yoke of oxen plough the land shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For a ten-acre vineyard will yieldonly six gallons of wine,and ten bushels of seed will yieldonly one bushel of grain.

Hebrew Names Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield an efah.

King James Version
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.

English Standard Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."

New American Standard Bible
"For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine, And a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain."

New Century Version
At that time a ten-acre vineyard will make only six gallons of wine, and ten bushels of seed will grow only half a bushel of grain."

Amplified Bible
"For ten acres of vineyard will yield [only] one bath of wine, And a homer (six bushels) of seed will produce [only] one ephah of grain."

World English Bible
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For ten acres of vines shal yelde one bath, and the seede of an homer shal yelde an ephah.

Legacy Standard Bible
For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine,And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain."

Berean Standard Bible
For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain."

Contemporary English Version
Ten acres of grapevines will produce only six gallons of juice, and five bushels of seed will produce merely a half-bushel of grain.

Complete Jewish Bible
for a ten-acre vineyard will produce only five gallons of wine, and seed from five bushels of grain will yield but half a bushel."

Darby Translation
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.

Easy-to-Read Version
A ten-acre vineyard will make only a little wine, and many sacks of seed will grow only a little grain."

George Lamsa Translation
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Good News Translation
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."

Lexham English Bible
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer will yield an ephah.

Literal Translation
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ten akers of vynes shal geue but a Quarte, and xxx. bushels of sede shal geue but thre.

American Standard Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Bible in Basic English
For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

King James Version (1611)
Yea ten acres of vineyard shall yeeld one Bath, and the seed of an Homer shall yeeld an Ephah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And tenne acres of vines shall geue but a quart, and thirtie busshels of seede shall geue but an Epha.

English Revised Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whi ten acris of vynes schulen make a potel, and thretti buschels of seed schulen make thre buschels.

Update Bible Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

New English Translation
Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel."

New King James Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah."

New Living Translation
Ten acres of vineyard will not produce even six gallons of wine. Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket of grain."

New Life Bible
For ten fields of vines will give only eleven large bottles of wine. And 110 jars of seed will give only eleven jars of grain."

New Revised Standard
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, ten yokes of vineyard, shall yield one bath, - And the seed of a homer, shall yield an ephah,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one little measure, and thirty bushels of seed shall yield three bushels.

Revised Standard Version
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."

Young's Literal Translation
For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine, And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain."

Contextual Overview

⁸ Woe to them that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor’s: will ye dwell alone upon the land? ⁹ For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts: for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them. ¹⁰ For where ten yoke of oxen plough the land shall yield one jar-full, and he that sows six homers shall produce three measures. ¹¹ Woe to them that rise up in the morning, and follow strong drink; who wait at it till evening: for the wine shall inflame them. ¹² For they drink wine with harp, and psaltery, and drums, and pipes: but they regard not the works of the Lord, and consider not the works of his hands. ¹³ Therefore my people have been taken captive, because they know not the Lord: and there has been a multitude of dead bodies, because of hunger and of thirst for water. ¹⁴ Therefore hell has enlarged its desire and opened its mouth without ceasing: and her glorious and great, and her rich and her pestilent men shall go down into it. ¹⁵ And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low. ¹⁶ But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgement, and the holy God shall be glorified in righteousness. ¹⁷ And they that were spoiled shall be fed as bulls, and lambs shall feed on the waste places of them that are taken away.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

one: Leviticus 27:16, Ezekiel 45:10, Ezekiel 45:11, Joel 1:17, Haggai 1:9-11

Reciprocal: Exodus 37:22 - beaten work Deuteronomy 28:30 - build Deuteronomy 28:38 - shalt carry Isaiah 5:6 - I will lay Isaiah 27:10 - the defenced Jeremiah 4:26 - the fruitful Jeremiah 8:13 - there Jeremiah 48:33 - caused Hosea 3:2 - an homer Haggai 1:6 - have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,.... They shall get nothing by laying field to field, for their fields shall be barren and unfruitful; though Jarchi and Kimchi take this to be a reason why their houses should be desolate, and without inhabitants, because there would be a famine, rendering the words, "for ten acres", c. The Targum makes this barrenness to be the punishment of their sin, in not paying tithes paraphrasing the words thus,

"for because of the sin of not giving tithes, the place of ten acres of vineyard shall produce one bath.''

The word צמדי signifies "yokes", and is used of yokes of oxen; hence the Septuagint and Arabic versions render the words thus, "for where ten yoke of oxen work", or "plough, it shall make one flagon"; and so Kimchi explains them, the place in a vineyard, which ten yoke of oxen plough in one day, shall yield no more wine than one bath. A bath is a measure for liquids; according to Godwin a, it held four gallons and a half; a small quantity indeed, to be produced out of ten acres of ground; an acre, according to our English measure, being a quantity of land containing four square roods, or one hundred sixty square poles or perches:

and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah: that is, as much seed as an "homer" would hold, which was a dry measure, and which, according to the above writer, contained five bushels and five gallons, should yield only an ephah, which was the tenth part of an homer,

Ezekiel 45:11 so that it would only produce a tenth part of the seed sown.

a Moses and Aaron, l. 6. c. 9.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Yea, ten acres - In this verse a reason is rendered why the houses mentioned in the previous verse should become desolate. The reason is, that the land would become sterile and barren, as a divine judgment for their oppression. To what particular time the prophet refers, here, is not apparent. It is certain, however, that the land of Canaan was frequently given up to sterility. The withholding of the early and latter rains, or the neglect of cultivation from any cause, would produce this. At present, this formerly fertile country is among the most unproductive on the face of the earth.

Ten acres - An “acre,” among the Hebrews, was what could be plowed by one yoke of oxen in a day. It did not differ materially from our acre.

Shall yield one bath - One bath of wine. The “bath” was a Jewish measure for liquids, containing about seven gallons and a half. To say that “ten acres” should produce no more wine than this; was the same as to say that it would produce almost nothing.

And the seed of an homer - An “homer” was a Hebrew measure for grain, containing about eight bushels.

An ephah - The “ephah” contained about three pecks. Of course, to say that an homer of seed should produce about three pecks, would be the same as saying that it would produce almost nothing.