Isaiah 7:23

At that time, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, 1 there will be nothing but briers and thorns. 1

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In The King James Version

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

In Context

22and because of the abundance of milk which they shall give, he will eat curds, 1 for everyone left in the land will eat curds and honey. 1

24Men will go there to hunt with bows, because all the land will be briers and thorns. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 3:18It will produce thorns and thistles for you, 1 and you will eat the plants of the field. 1

Isaiah 5:6I will lay it waste, and it will not be pruned nor hoed. Instead, briers and thorns will spring up. 1 I will also command the clouds not to rain on it. 1

Isaiah 32:13The land of my people will be overgrown with thorns and briers, 1 even in all the once joyful houses in the city of revelry. 1

Matthew 21:33Listen to another parable. There was a man, a landowner. He planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a winepress in it, built a watchtower, and rented it out to vine growers. Then he went into another country.

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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