The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
ISA 5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed
of an homer shall yield an ephah.
ISA 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may
follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
ISA 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,
are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither
consider the operation of his hands.
ISA 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have
no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude
dried up with thirst.
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