Isaiah 7:25
And as for all the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
24With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briars and thorns shall be in all the land.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.
Isaiah 13:20It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there.
Zephaniah 2:6And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle:
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 →