Isaiah 5:10

Indeed, a large vineyard ¹  will produce just a few gallons, ²  and enough seed to yield several bushels ³  will produce less than a bushel.” ⁴ 

biblegateway Isa 5:10

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine, a homer of seed only an ephah of grain."

biblegateway Isa 5:10

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

biblegateway Isa 5:10

Ten acres of vineyard will not produce even six gallons of wine. Ten measures of seed will yield only one measure of grain."

biblegateway Isa 5:10

A ten-acre vineyard will produce a pint of wine, a fifty-pound sack of seed, a quart of grain."

SABDAweb Isa 5:10

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.

bibleoremus Isa 5:10

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

biblegateway Isa 5:10

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

biblegateway Isa 5:10

Indeed, a large vineyard ¹  will produce just a few gallons, ²  and enough seed to yield several bushels ³  will produce less than a bushel.” ⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “a ten-yoke vineyard.” The Hebrew term צֶמֶד (tsemed, “yoke”) is here a unit of square measure. Apparently a ten-yoke vineyard covered the same amount of land it would take ten teams of oxen to plow in a certain period of time. The exact size is unknown.

² tn Heb “one bath.” A bath was a liquid measure. Estimates of its modern equivalent range from approximately six to twelve gallons.

³ tn Heb “a homer.” A homer was a dry measure, the exact size of which is debated. Cf. NCV “ten bushels”; CEV “five bushels.”

⁴ tn Heb “an ephah.” An ephah was a dry measure; there were ten ephahs in a homer. So this verse envisions major crop failure, where only one-tenth of the anticipated harvest is realized.