Isaiah 7:24

With arrows and with a bow, shall one come in thither,—for briars and thorns, shall be all the land.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 it shall some to pass in that day, that, every place wherein there used to be a thousand vines at a thousand pieces of silver,—yea, even for briars and thorns, shall it be.

25But all the hills which, with the hoe, can be weeded,—there shall not come thither, the fear of briars and thorns,—but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the tread of lesser cattle.

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Cross References

Genesis 3:18Thorn also and thistle, shall it shoot forth to thee,—when thou hast come to eat of the herb 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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