Isaiah 7:21

And it has come to pass in that day, || A man keeps alive a heifer of the herd, || And two of the flock,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;

In Context

20In that day the Lord shaves, || By a razor that is hired beyond the river, || By the king of Asshur, || The head, and the hair of the feet, || Indeed, it also consumes the beard.

22And it has come to pass, || He eats butter from the abundance of the yielding of milk, || For everyone who is left in the heart of the land eats butter and honey.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:17And lambs have fed according to their leading, || And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.

Isaiah 17:2The cities of Aroer are forsaken, || They are for droves, and they have lain down, || And there is none troubling.

Jeremiah 39:10And Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners, has left in the land of Judah the poor people who have nothing, and he gives vineyards and fields to them in that day.

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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