OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 23

Isaiah 7:23

World English Bible Updated

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns.

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Isaiah 7:20–25

20

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

21

It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.

22

It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter, for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.

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It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns.

24

People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

25

All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”

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  1. A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces, so 1000 shekels is about 10 kilograms or 22 pounds.

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