Isaiah 7:21

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow and two sheep.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

In Context

20In that day LORD will shave with a razor what is hired in the parts beyond the River, [even] with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it shall also consume the beard.

22And it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter. For everyone who is left in the midst of the land shall eat butter and honey.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:17Then the lambs shall feed as in their pasture, and wanderers shall eat the waste places of the fat ones.

Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken. They shall be for flocks, which shall lay down, and none shall make them afraid.

Jeremiah 39:10But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, that had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 7:18-25

Judgments Announced. ( b. c. 740.) 17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria. 18 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all… Read the whole commentary →

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