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Isaiah 7:25

Isaiah 7:25 is verse 25 of Isaiah chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

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King James Version

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.

World English Bible

All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”

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Isaiah 7:23–25 · Berean Standard Bible

23 And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.

24 Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

25 For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample.

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Hebrew words

וְכֹ֣לand all הֶהָרִ֗יםthe hills אֲשֶׁ֤רwhich בַּמַּעְדֵּר֙with the hoe יֵעָ֣דֵר֔וּןthey were hoed !לֹֽאnot תָב֣וֹאyou will go שָׁ֔מָּהthere <towards>יִרְאַ֖תfear of שָׁמִ֣ירthorn[s]וָשָׁ֑יִתand bush[es]וְהָיָה֙and it will become לְמִשְׁלַ֣ח<into> pastureland of שׁ֔וֹרox[en]וּלְמִרְמַ֖סand <into> a trampling place of שֶֽׂהsheep

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 7:21
On that day a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,

Isaiah 7:22
and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

Isaiah 13:20
She will never be inhabited or settled from generation to generation; no nomad will pitch his tent there, no shepherd will rest his flock there.

Isaiah 13:21
But desert creatures will lie down there, and howling creatures will fill her houses. Ostriches will dwell there, and wild goats will leap about.

Isaiah 13:22
Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.

Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they will be left to the flocks, which will lie down with no one to fear.

Zephaniah 2:6
So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep.

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