Isaiah 7:24

Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

In Context

23And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a thousand shekels of silver, there will be nothing but blackberries and thorns.

25And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spade, ... fear of blackberries and thorns.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:18Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

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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