Isaiah 7:24

People will go hunting there with bows and arrows because the land will be covered with brambles and thorns.

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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

23At that time everywhere that once had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will only have brambles and thorns.

25In fact, all the hills that were once tilled by the hoe you won't want to go to because you'll worry about the brambles and thorns there. They'll just be where cattle are let loose and where sheep roam.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:18It will grow thorns and thistles for you, and you will have to eat wild plants.

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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