Isaiah 7:21

When that happens, a farmer will be able to have only one cow and two goats/sheep.

Translation for Translators

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

20At that time Yahweh will hire the king of Assyria to come with his army from east of the Euphrates River. They will get rid of everything in your land—the crops and the people. They will destroy everything thoroughly; it will be like [MET] a barber shaving not only a man’s hair but his beard and the hair on his legs.

22However, those animals will give plenty of milk, with the result that the farmer will have curds/yogurt to eat. And because there will not be many people left in the land, all the people who remain there will have plenty of milk and honey.

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Cross References

Isaiah 5:17Then lambs and fat sheep will be able to find good grass to eat, even among the ruins of the houses of rich people.

Isaiah 17:2The towns near Aroer city will be abandoned. Flocks of sheep will eat grass in the streets and lie down there, and there will be no one to chase them away.

Jeremiah 39:10But he allowed some of the very poor people to remain in Judah, and he gave them vineyards and fields to take care of.

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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