Isaiah 7:25
But on all the mountaines, which shalbe digged with the mattocke, there shall not come thither the feare of briers and thornes: but they shalbe for the sending out of bullocks, and for the treading of sheepe.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
24With arrowes and with bowe shall one come thither: because all the land shall be briers and thornes.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the lambes feede after their maner, and the strangers shall eate the desolate places of the fat.
Isaiah 13:20It shall not bee inhabited for euer, neither shall it be dwelled in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, neither shall the shepheardes make their foldes there.
Zephaniah 2:6And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cotages for shepheardes and sheepefoldes.
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 →