Isaiah 5:10 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 5:10

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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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

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Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 10.) For they will make one small jar from ten acres of vineyards, and they will make three bushels from thirty bushels of seed. For the small jar, which only the seventy translated, all others have interpreted as a bat, which is said in Hebrew Beth (). And for the thirty bushels, which we have called a cor, which in Hebrew is called Omer (), the seventy translated as six artabas: which is an Egyptian measure and makes twenty bushels.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The bath contained about eight gallons. Thus an acre did not yield one gallon. An ephah - Which was of the same quantity with the bath, only the bath was the measure of liquid things, the ephah of dry things; and a ephah was the tenth part of an homer.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֗י	Ki	for	H3588 →
עֲשֶׂ֙רֶת֙	'a.Se.ret	ten	H6235 →
צִמְדֵּי־	tzim.dei-	acres of	H6776 →
כֶ֔רֶם	Khe.rem	vineyard	H3754 →
יַעֲשׂ֖וּ	ya.'a.Su	they will produce	H6213 →
בַּ֣ת	bat	a bath	H1324 →
אֶחָ֑ת	'e.Chat	one	H259 →
וְזֶ֥רַע	ve.Ze.ra'	and seed of	H2233 →
חֹ֖מֶר	Cho.mer	a homer	H2563 →
יַעֲשֶׂ֥ה	ya.'a.Seh	it will produce	H6213 →
אֵיפָֽה׃ פ	'ei.Fah	an ephah	H374 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Haggai 1:6
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…
leads to
- Haggai 1:9
  You 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…
- Hosea 4:10
  They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 28:38–40
  You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.
- Malachi 3:9–11
  You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.
- Haggai 2:16
  from 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.
Through
Leviticus 26:26
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.
leads to
- Micah 6:14
  You will eat but not be satisfied, and your hunger will remain with you. What you acquire, you will not preserve; and what you save, I will give to the sword.
- Psalms 105:16
  He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food.
- Isaiah 3:1
  For behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support: the whole supply of food and water,

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06About Isaiah

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Where the connections lead

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About Isaiah