Isaiah 7:25
And all the hills that with a mattock are kept in order, Thither cometh not the fear of brier and thorn, And it hath been for the sending forth of ox, And for the treading of sheep!'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
24With arrows and with bow he cometh thither, Because all the land is brier and thorn.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17And fed have lambs according to their leading, And waste places of the fat ones Do sojourners consume.
Isaiah 13:20She doth not sit for ever, Nor continueth unto many generations, Nor doth Arab pitch tent there, And shepherds lie not down there.
Zephaniah 2:6And the sea-coast hath been habitations, Cottages [for] shepherds, and folds [for] a flock.
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 →