Isaiah 7:25
For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
24Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy.
Isaiah 13:20She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.
Zephaniah 2:6So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.
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 →