Isaiah 7:22 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²² and will eat curds because of the abundance of milk that they give, for everyone left in the land shall eat curds and honey.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²² and it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²² And because of the abundance of milk that they will give, he will eat butter and curds, for [only] butter and curds and [wild] honey [no vegetables] shall everyone eat who is left in the land [these products provided from the extensive pastures and the plentiful wild flowers upon which the bees depend].

American Standard Version (1901)

²² and it shall come to pass, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the midst of the land.

Common English Bible

²² and will eat butter because of the abundance of milk, for all who remain in the land will eat butter and honey.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²² and, instead of an abundance of milk, he will eat butter. For all who are left behind in the midst of the land will eat butter and honey.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²² And for the abundance of milk he shall eat butter: for, butter and honey shall every one eat that shall be left in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 7:22 Cross References

Genesis 18:8

Then he took curds and milk and the calf that he had prepared and set it before them, and he stood by them under the tree while they ate.

2 Samuel 17:29

honey and curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd, for David and the people with him to eat, for they said, “The troops are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

Isaiah 14:30

In my pastures the poor will graze and the needy lie down in safety, but I will make your root die of famine, and your remnant I will kill.

Isaiah 17:2

Her towns will be deserted forever; they will be places for flocks, which will lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

Isaiah 7:15

He shall eat curds and honey by the time he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.

Isaiah 8:15

And many among them shall stumble; they shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken.”

Matthew 3:4

Now John wore clothing of camel’s hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.