thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Isaiah 7:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be briers and thorns. American Standard Version (1901) And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall be for briers and thorns. Common English Bible On that day, there will be thorns and thistles in every place where a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels once grew. Catholic Public Domain Version And this shall be in that day: every place, where there were a thousand grapevines worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it shall come to pass in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines, at a thousand pieces of silver shall become thorns and briers. |
thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent ones, for the vintage will fail; the fruit harvest will not come.
For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.
I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and it shall be overgrown with briers and thorns; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
With bow and arrows one will go there, for all the land will be briers and thorns,
I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.
The inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation, and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, “These are my pay, which my lovers have given me.” I will make them a forest, and the wild animals shall devour them.
For even if they escape destruction, Egypt shall gather them; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
“Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. Then he leased it to tenants and went away.
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and on the verge of being cursed; its end is to be burned over.