In the desolate valleys and in athe clefts of the rocks,
And on all thorns and in all pastures.
With those from beyond1 the River, with the king of Assyria,
The head and the hair of the legs,
And will also remove the beard.
That he will eat curds;
For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.
That wherever there could be a thousand vines
Worth a thousand shekels of silver,
aIt will be for briers and thorns.
You will not go there for fear of briers and thorns;
But it will become a range for oxen
And a place for sheep to roam.
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Isaiah 7:21
In that day - In the time specified in the previous verses - in the judgments that should be brought upon the land by the Egyptians and Assyrians.
A man shall nourish - Hebrew ' Make to live:' that is, he shall own, or feed.
A young cow - The Hebrew denotes a heifer that gives milk. The state which is denoted by this is that of great poverty. Instead of being engaged in agriculture, of possessing great resources in that time, a man should depend, for the subsistence of himself and his family, on what a single cow and two sheep would yield. Probably this is intended also as a description of the general state of the nation, that it would be reduced to great poverty.
And two sheep - Two here seems to be used to denote a very small number. A man, that is, the generality of people, would be so reduced as to be able to purchase and keep no more.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 7:21:
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