10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[a] of wine;
    a homer[b] of seed will yield only an ephah[c] of grain.”(A)

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  1. Isaiah 5:10 That is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters
  2. Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms
  3. Isaiah 5:10 That is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms

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

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17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture;(A)
    lambs will feed[a] among the ruins of the rich.

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  1. Isaiah 5:17 Septuagint; Hebrew / strangers will eat

17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

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But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,(A)
    which are not gathered with the hand.

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But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

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23 In that day,(A) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[a](B) there will be only briers and thorns.(C)

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  1. Isaiah 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms

23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

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24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers(A) and thorns.

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24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

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13 and for the land of my people,
    a land overgrown with thorns and briers(A)
yes, mourn(B) for all houses of merriment
    and for this city of revelry.(C)

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13 Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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13 Thorns(A) will overrun her citadels,
    nettles and brambles her strongholds.(B)
She will become a haunt for jackals,(C)
    a home for owls.(D)

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13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

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13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
    and instead of briers(A) the myrtle(B) will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,(C)
    for an everlasting sign,
    that will endure forever.”

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13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

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24 “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.(A) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

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24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

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12 I will ruin her vines(A) and her fig trees,(B)
    which she said were her pay from her lovers;(C)
I will make them a thicket,(D)
    and wild animals will devour them.(E)

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12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed.(A) In the end it will be burned.

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But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

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