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Judah’s Sins Denounced

Woe to those who add house to house(A)
and join field to field
until there is no more room
and you alone are left in the land.

I heard the Lord of Armies say:

Indeed, many houses(B) will become desolate,
grand and lovely ones without inhabitants.
10 For a ten-acre[a] vineyard will yield
only 22 litres of wine,[b]
and 220 litres[c] of seed will yield
only 22 litres of grain.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 5:10 Lit ten-yoke
  2. 5:10 Lit one bath
  3. 5:10 Lit one homer
  4. 5:10 Lit yield an ephah