thorns and thistles it shall bring forth to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
Isaiah 7:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) In 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 to you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.
In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; 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 but an ephah.”
I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
With bow and arrows men will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns;
I looked, and lo, the fruitful land was a desert, and all its cities were laid in ruins before the Lord, before his fierce anger.
And the inhabited cities shall be laid waste, and the land shall become a desolation; and you shall know that I am the Lord.”
And I will lay waste her vines and her fig trees, of which she said, ‘These are my hire, which my lovers have given me.’ I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall devour them.
For behold, they are going to Assyria; Egypt shall gather them, Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver; thorns shall be in their tents.
“Hear another parable. There was a householder who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a wine press in it, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country.
But if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed; its end is to be burned.