("Warning!"). 8-10: The first complaint is directed against wealthy landowners who expand their own property at the expense of farmers of modest means. The eviction of peasants and the growth of massive estates was a major problem in the 8th century (cf. Amos ch 2; Mic. ch 2). In Israelite thought (as reflected in both prophetic literature and the Torah), land was ideally supposed to remain in the hands of a family in perpetuity, so that both tremendous wealth and penury would become unlikely. The Torah includes several laws to prevent poor or modest families from losing their land; see Lev. 25.8; Num. 27.1-11, 35; Deut. 27.17. (Sommer, *Jewish Study Bible)* JPS Commentary:  _**just one bath** Of wine. The bath was the liquid equivalent of the ephah; and the ḥomer was ten baths or ephahs (Ezek. 45.11)._