Isaiah 7:24

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers 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

23And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

25For 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.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:18Both thorns and thistles it will yield for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.

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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