Isaiah 7:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ and as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ And as for all the hills that were formerly cultivated with mattock and hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns; but they will become a place where oxen are let loose to pasture and where sheep tread.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ And all the hills that were digged with the mattock, thou shalt not come thither for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.

Common English Bible

²⁵ As for the hills that were once farmed with hoes, you won’t go there for fear of the thorns and thistles. They will become places where cattle are turned loose and sheep wander.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ But as for all the mountains, which will be dug with a hoe, the terror of thorns and briers will not approach those places. And there will be pasture land for oxen, and a range for cattle."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ And as for all the hills that shall be raked with a rake, the fear of thorns and briers shall not come thither, but they shall be for the ox to feed on, and the lesser cattle to tread upon.

Isaiah 7:25 Cross References

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 5:17

Then the lambs shall graze as in their pasture; fatted calves and kids shall feed among the ruins.

Isaiah 7:19

And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the clefts of the rocks and on all the thornbushes and on all the watering holes.

Isaiah 7:24

With bow and arrows one will go there, for all the land will be briers and thorns,

Hosea 4:16

Like a stubborn heifer, Israel is stubborn; can the Lord now feed them like a lamb in a broad pasture?

Zephaniah 2:6

And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, meadows for shepherds, and folds for flocks.