Isaiah 5:9-10

9, 10. Many houses shall be desolate Without occupant, desolation dwelling there, because of the invasion invoked below, in Isaiah 5:26-30.

Great and fair Aristocratic though they be.

Ten acres An acre was a space of ground ploughed by a man with a yoke of oxen in one day, about three fourths of an English acre. Ten acres of vineyard, it is estimated, (Kay,) might be expected ordinarily to produce 32,000 pints of wine, or 500 baths, instead of which it is here said they shall produce but one.

A homer About ten bushels, enough to sow ten acres, but here only one bushel is promised. A bath was a liquid measure, in capacity one tenth of a “homer,” a dry measure. Ezekiel 45:11-14. God directly permits devastation like this as a punishment for these specified sins. Compare Leviticus 26:20 with Isaiah 24:7 and Joel 1:10-12.