Other Translations of Isaiah 5:10
New International Version
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bathThat is, about 6 gallons or about 22 liters of wine; a homerThat is, probably about 360 pounds or about 160 kilograms of seed will yield only an ephahThat is, probably about 36 pounds or about 16 kilograms of grain."
English Standard Version
10 For ten acresHebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah."A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
The Message
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce a pint of wine, a fifty-pound sack of seed, a quart of grain."
New King James Version
10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah."
New Living Translation
10 Ten acres of vineyard will not produce even six gallons of wine. Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket of grain."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 5:10
Commentary on Isaiah 5:8-23
(Read 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. Those who set their hearts upon the world, will justly be disappointed. Here is woe to those who dote upon the pleasures and the delights of sense. The use of music is lawful; but when it draws away the heart from God, then it becomes a sin to us. God's judgments have seized them, but they will not disturb themselves in their pleasures. The judgments are declared. Let a man be ever so high, death will bring him low; ever so mean, death will bring him lower. The fruit of these judgments shall be, that God will be glorified as a God of power. Also, as a God that is holy; he shall be owned and declared to be so, in the righteous punishment of proud men. Those are in a woful condition who set up sin, and who exert themselves to gratify their base lusts. They are daring in sin, and walk after their own lusts; it is in scorn that they call God the Holy One of Israel. They confound and overthrow distinctions between good and evil. They prefer their own reasonings to Divine revelations; their own devices to the counsels and commands of God. They deem it prudent and politic to continue profitable sins, and to neglect self-denying duties. Also, how light soever men make of drunkenness, it is a sin which lays open to the wrath and curse of God. Their judges perverted justice. Every sin needs some other to conceal it.