Isaiah 7:25
And all the hills that were dug with the mattock, thou shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24[Men] shall come there with arrows and with bow, because all the land shall be briers and thorns.
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 13:20It shall never be inhabited, nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation. Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there, nor shall shepherds make their flocks to lay down there.
Zephaniah 2:6And the seacoast shall be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
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 →