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23 There are now fields that have 1000 grapevines, and each grapevine is worth 1000 pieces of silver. But those fields will be covered with weeds and thorns. 24 That land will be wild and used only as a hunting ground where people go with bows and arrows. 25 People once worked the soil and grew food on these hills, but at that time they will not go there, because the fields will be covered with weeds and thorns. It will be a place where cattle graze and sheep wander.”

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23 In that day,(A) in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,[a](B) there will be only briers and thorns.(C) 24 Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers(D) and thorns. 25 As for all the hills(E) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;(F) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:23 That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms