Isaiah 7:25
And all the hills that are kept in order with a mattock, || There does not come [for] fear of brier and thorn, || And it has been for the sending forth of ox, || And for the treading of sheep!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24He comes there with arrows and with bow, || Because all the land is brier and thorn.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17And lambs have fed according to their leading, || And sojourners consume wastelands of the fat ones.
Isaiah 13:20She does not sit forever, || Nor continue to many generations, || Nor does Arab pitch tent there, || And shepherds do not lie down there.
Zephaniah 2:6And the seacoast has been habitations, || Cottages [for] shepherds, and folds [for] a flock.
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 →