It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Isaiah 7:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised And on that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briars. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
In a little more than a year you overconfident ones will shudder, for the grapes will fail and the harvest will not come.
For a ten-acre vineyard will yield only 22 litres of wine, and 220 litres of seed will yield only 22 litres of grain.
I will make it a wasteland. It will not be pruned or weeded; thorns and briars will grow up. I will also give orders to the clouds that rain should not fall on it.
A man will go there with bow and arrows because the whole land will be thorns and briars.
I looked, and the fertile field was a wilderness. All its cities were torn down because of the Lord and his burning anger.
The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become dreadful. Then you will know that I am the Lord.” ’
I will devastate her vines and fig trees. She thinks that these are her wages that her lovers have given her. I will turn them into a thicket, and the wild animals will eat them.
For even if they flee from devastation, Egypt will gather them, and Memphis will bury them. Thistles will take possession of their precious silver; thorns will invade their tents.
‘Listen to another parable: There was a landowner, who planted a vineyard, put a fence round it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. He leased it to tenant farmers and went away.
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and at the end will be burned.