◄ Isaiah 7:25 ►
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Good News Translation
All the hills where crops were once planted will be so overgrown with thorns that no one will go there. It will be a place where cattle and sheep graze."

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
The hills where you once planted crops will be overgrown with thorns and thistles. You will be afraid to go there, and your cattle, sheep, and goats will be turned loose on those hills.

New American Bible
But as for all the hills which were hoed with a mattock, for fear of briers and thorns you will not go there; they shall become a place for cattle to roam and sheep to trample.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as for 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And as for 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.

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Isaiah 7:21,22 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep. . . .

Isaiah 13:20-22 It shall no more be inhabited for ever, and it shall not be founded unto generation and generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch his tents there, nor shall shepherds rest there. . . .

Isaiah 17:2 The cities of Aroer shall be left for flocks, and they shall rest there, and there shall be none to make them afraid.

Zephaniah 2:6 And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle:

Context
Judgment to Come
…24With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briers and thorns shall be in all the land. 25And as for 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.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:17
And the lambs shall feed according to their order, and strangers shall eat the deserts turned into fruitfulness.

Isaiah 7:19
And they shall come, and shall all of them rest in the torrents of the valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all places set with shrubs, and in all hollow places.

Isaiah 7:24
With arrows and with bows they shall go in thither: for briers and thorns shall be in all the land.

Hosea 4:16
For Israel hath gone astray like a wanton heifer now will the Lord feed them, as a lamb in a spacious place.

Zephaniah 2:6
And the sea coast shall be the resting place of shepherds, and folds for cattle:

Isaiah 7:24
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