Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Ten acres of vineyard yielding only one bath and the seed of a homer yielding only an ephah describes drastic agricultural failure as God's judgment for injustice and self-indulgence. The meager yield means orchards once productive are left to ruin and many great and fair houses stand desolate without inhabitant, because the Lord withholds the rain of heaven.
One cause is monopolizing land by joining house to house and field to field until there is no place, oppressing God's heritage instead of rendering judgment and righteousness. Another cause is intemperance and revelry, rising early to follow strong drink until wine inflames at night, with harp and viol and tabret and pipe and wine in their feasts, while not regarding the work of the Lord nor considering the operation of His hands.
The same condition appears where costly buildings stand for years uninhabited and once-productive orchards are ruined, as seen in Southern California. It ends in captivity for lack of knowledge, with honorable men famished and the multitude dried up with thirst.
Ten acres of vineyard yielding only one bath and the seed of a homer yielding only an ephah describes drastic agricultural failure as God's judgment for injustice and self-indulgence. The meager yield means orchards once productive are left to ruin and many great and fair houses stand desolate without inhabitant, because the Lord withholds the rain of heaven.
One cause is monopolizing land by joining house to house and field to field until there is no place, oppressing God's heritage instead of rendering judgment and righteousness. Another cause is intemperance and revelry, rising early to follow strong drink until wine inflames at night, with harp and viol and tabret and pipe and wine in their feasts, while not regarding the work of the Lord nor considering the operation of His hands.
The same condition appears where costly buildings stand for years uninhabited and once-productive orchards are ruined, as seen in Southern California. It ends in captivity for lack of knowledge, with honorable men famished and the multitude dried up with thirst.