8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land. 9 I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied. 10 For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”
Isaiah 5:8–10
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