Isaiah 5 · Verse 10

Isaiah 5:10

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Isaiah 5:10, King James Version

Isaiah 5:10 in other translations

BSBFor ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
WEBFor ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
ASVFor ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.
YLTFor ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
DARBYYea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.
BBEFor 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.
WebsterYes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

What does Isaiah 5:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. acres--literally, "yokes"; as much as one yoke of oxen could plow in a day. one--only. bath--of wine; seven and a half gallons. homer ... ephah--Eight bushels of seed would yield only three pecks of produce (Eze 45:11). The ephah and bath, one-tenth of an homer.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 5:8-23

Here is a woe to those who set their hearts on the wealth of the world. Not that it is sinful for those who have a house and a field to purchase another; but the fault is, that they never know when they have enough. Covetousness is idolatry; and while many envy the prosperous, wretched man, the Lord denounces awful woes upon him. How applicable to many among us! God has many ways to empty the most populous cities…

Read the full comment on Isaiah 5:8-23 →

Isaiah 5:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֗יKiforH3588
עֲשֶׂ֙רֶת֙'a.Se.rettenH6235
צִמְדֵּי\־tzim.dei-acres ofH6776
כֶ֔רֶםKhe.remvineyardH3754
יַעֲשׂ֖וּya.'a.Suthey will produceH6213
בַּ֣תbata bathH1324
אֶחָ֑ת'e.ChatoneH259
וְזֶ֥רַעve.Ze.ra'and seed ofH2233
חֹ֖מֶרCho.mera homerH2563
יַעֲשֶׂ֥הya.'a.Sehit will produceH6213
אֵיפָֽה\׃\ \פ'ei.Fahan ephahH374

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 5:10

  • Leviticus 26:26

    And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

  • Haggai 2:16

    Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

  • Haggai 1:6

    Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

  • Haggai 1:9-11

    Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

  • Leviticus 27:16

    And if a man shall sanctify unto the Lord some part of a field of his possession, then thy estimation shall be according to the seed thereof: an homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.

  • Joel 1:17

    The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate, the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.

  • Ezekiel 45:10-11

    Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

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Le 27:16; Eze 45:10,11; Joe 1:17; Hag 1:9-11

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Context

  • Isaiah 5:9

    In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

  • Isaiah 5:10

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

  • Isaiah 5:11

    Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!

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Isaiah 5:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y diez huebras de viña producirán un zaque, y treinta modios de simiente darán tres modios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car dix arpents de vigne ne produiront qu’un bath, et un khomer de semence produira un épha.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn zehn Juchart Weinberge werden ein Bath bringen, und ein Homer Samen wird ein Epha bringen. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Decem enim jugera vinearum facient lagunculam unam, et triginta modii sementis facient modios tres.