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Version</a></span><br />In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/7.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/7.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>that</i> every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall <i>even</i> be for briers and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/7.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />It shall happen in that day, <i>That</i> wherever there could be a thousand vines <i>Worth</i> a thousand <i>shekels</i> of silver, It will be for briers and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/7.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />And it will come about on that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, <i>valued</i> at a thousand <i>shekels</i> of silver, will become briars and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/7.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/7.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />And it will come about in that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, <i>valued</i> at a thousand <i>shekels</i> of silver, will become briars and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/7.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />And it will be in that day, <i>that</i> every place where there used to be one thousand vines, <i>valued</i> at one thousand <i>shekels</i> of silver, will become briars and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/7.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />And it will come to pass in that day, in every place where there used to be a thousand vines, <i>worth</i> a thousand silver <i>shekels,</i> there will be briars and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/7.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />And on that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/7.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />And on that day every place where there were 1,000 vines, worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become thorns and briers. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/7.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/7.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Vineyards that had 1,000 vines and were worth 1,000 pieces of silver will turn into thorn patches. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/7.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall even be for briers and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/7.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />On that day, in every place where there were 1,000 vines (worth 1,000 pieces of silver), there will be briars and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/7.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"When that time comes, the fine vineyards, each with a thousand vines and each worth a thousand pieces of silver, will be overgrown with thorn bushes and briers. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/7.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"At that time, every place where once there were a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briars and thorns will grow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/7.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />At that time every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun with thorns and briers.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/7.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/7.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand pieces of silver, it shall even be for briers and thorns.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/7.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/7.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/7.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And it has come to pass in that day, "" Every place where there are one thousand vines, "" At one thousand pieces of silver, "" Is for briers and for thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/7.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And it hath come to pass, in that day, Every place where there are a thousand vines, At a thousand silverlings, Is for briers and for thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/7.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />And it was in that day every place shall be where shall be there a thousand vines for a thousand of silver, for sharp points and thorns shall it be.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/7.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/7.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/7.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />On that day every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver shall become briers and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/7.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/7.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And it shall come to pass in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand silver pieces, shall become briers and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/7.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And it will be in that day, everywhere that has in it a thousand vines for a thousand pieces of silver, shall be for a thicket and for thorns<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/7.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, shall even be for briers and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/7.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And it shall come to pass in that day, <i>for</i> every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/7-23.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=1583" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/7.htm">Judgment to Come</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">22</span>and from the abundance of milk they give, he will eat curds; for all who remain in the land will eat curds and honey. <span class="reftext">23</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="1931: ha·hū (Art:: Pro-3ms) -- He, she, it. ">And on that</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: bay·yō·wm (Prep-b, Art:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">day,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: wə·hā·yāh (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: ḵāl (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">in every</a> <a href="/hebrew/4725.htm" title="4725: mā·qō·wm (N-ms) -- Or maqom; also mqowmah; or mqomah; from quwm; properly, a standing, i.e. A spot; but used widely of a locality; also of a condition.">place</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yeh- (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">had</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: šām (Adv) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence."></a> <a href="/hebrew/505.htm" title="505: ’e·lep̄ (Number-msc) -- A thousand. Prop, the same as 'eleph; hence a thousand.">a thousand</a> <a href="/hebrew/1612.htm" title="1612: ge·p̄en (N-cs) -- A vine. From an unused root meaning to bend; a vine, especially the grape.">vines</a> <a href="/hebrew/505.htm" title="505: bə·’e·lep̄ (Prep-b:: Number-msc) -- A thousand. Prop, the same as 'eleph; hence a thousand.">worth a thousand shekels</a> <a href="/hebrew/3701.htm" title="3701: kā·sep̄ (N-ms) -- Silver, money. From kacaph; silver; by implication, money.">of silver,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8068.htm" title="8068: laš·šā·mîr (Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- A thorn, adamant, flint. From shamar in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also a gem, probably the diamond.">only briers</a> <a href="/hebrew/7898.htm" title="7898: wə·laš·ša·yiṯ (Conj-w, Prep-l, Art:: N-ms) -- Thornbushes. From shiyth; scrub or trash, i.e. Wild growth of weeds or briers.">and thorns</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: yih·yeh (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">will be found.</a> </span><span class="reftext">24</span>Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a></span><br />I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/32-13.htm">Isaiah 32:13-14</a></span><br />and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry. / For the palace will be forsaken, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become caves forever—the delight of wild donkeys and a pasture for flocks—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/17-9.htm">Isaiah 17:9</a></span><br />In that day their strong cities will be like forsaken thickets and summits, abandoned to the Israelites and to utter desolation.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm">Isaiah 5:10</a></span><br />For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/24-13.htm">Isaiah 24:13</a></span><br />So will it be on the earth and among the nations, like a harvested olive tree, like a gleaning after a grape harvest.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/27-10.htm">Isaiah 27:10</a></span><br />For the fortified city lies deserted—a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-17.htm">Jeremiah 5:17</a></span><br />They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which you trust.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/12-10.htm">Jeremiah 12:10-11</a></span><br />Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard; they have trampled My plot of ground. They have turned My pleasant field into a desolate wasteland. / They have made it a desolation; desolate before Me, it mourns. All the land is laid waste, but no man takes it to heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/48-33.htm">Jeremiah 48:33</a></span><br />Joy and gladness are removed from the orchard and from the fields of Moab. I have stopped the flow of wine from the presses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; their shouts are not for joy.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/6-14.htm">Ezekiel 6:14</a></span><br />I will stretch out My hand against them, and wherever they live I will make the land a desolate waste, from the wilderness to Diblah. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/15-8.htm">Ezekiel 15:8</a></span><br />Thus I will make the land desolate, because they have acted unfaithfully,’ declares the Lord GOD.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/3-12.htm">Micah 3:12</a></span><br />Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-13.htm">Zephaniah 1:13</a></span><br />Their wealth will be plundered and their houses laid waste. They will build houses but not inhabit them, and plant vineyards but never drink their wine.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/21-19.htm">Matthew 21:19</a></span><br />Seeing a fig tree by the road, He went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. “May you never bear fruit again!” He said. And immediately the tree withered.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/21-33.htm">Matthew 21:33-41</a></span><br />Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey. / When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit. / But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand sliver coins, it shall even be for briers and thorns.</p><p class="hdg">a thousand vines</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/songs/8-11.htm">Song of Solomon 8:11,12</a></b></br> Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand <i>pieces</i> of silver… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/21-33.htm">Matthew 21:33</a></b></br> Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:</p><p class="hdg">be for briers</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Isaiah 5:6</a></b></br> And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Isaiah 32:12-14</a></b></br> They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/4-26.htm">Jeremiah 4:26</a></b></br> I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place <i>was</i> a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, <i>and</i> by his fierce anger.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Blackberries</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Briars</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Briers</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-8.htm">Pieces</a> <a href="/songs/8-12.htm">Shekels</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-20.htm">Silver</a> <a href="/songs/8-11.htm">Silverlings</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-19.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/songs/8-12.htm">Thousand</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Used</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-1.htm">Valued</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-10.htm">Worth</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/7-24.htm">Blackberries</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-24.htm">Briars</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-24.htm">Briers</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-9.htm">Pieces</a> <a href="/jeremiah/32-9.htm">Shekels</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-17.htm">Silver</a> <a href="/hosea/3-2.htm">Silverlings</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-24.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-17.htm">Thousand</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Used</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-2.htm">Valued</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-12.htm">Vines</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-2.htm">Worth</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 7</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/7-1.htm">Ahaz, being troubled with fear of Rezin and Pekah, is comforted by Isaiah</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/7-10.htm">Ahaz, having liberty to choose a sign, and refusing it, has for a sign, Christ promised</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/7-17.htm">His judgment is prophesied to come by Assyria</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/7.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/7.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>And on that day</b><br>This phrase refers to a specific time of judgment and fulfillment of prophecy. In the context of <a href="/isaiah/7.htm">Isaiah 7</a>, "that day" points to a future period when God's warnings through the prophet Isaiah would come to pass. It is a reminder of the certainty of God's word and His control over historical events. This phrase often signifies a time of divine intervention or significant change, as seen in other prophetic books like Joel and Zephaniah.<p><b>in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver</b><br>This imagery highlights the prosperity and wealth of the land before judgment. A vineyard with a thousand vines would be considered highly valuable, indicating a place of abundance and economic significance. The mention of "a thousand shekels of silver" underscores the substantial worth of these vineyards, reflecting the economic prosperity of Judah before the impending devastation. This can be compared to the blessings of the land described in <a href="/deuteronomy/8-7.htm">Deuteronomy 8:7-9</a>, where the abundance of the Promised Land is emphasized.<p><b>only briers and thorns will be found</b><br>This phrase signifies desolation and the consequences of turning away from God. Briers and thorns are often used in Scripture to symbolize judgment and curse, as seen in <a href="/genesis/3-18.htm">Genesis 3:18</a>, where thorns and thistles are part of the curse on the ground after the Fall. The transformation from a fruitful vineyard to a place overrun with briers and thorns illustrates the reversal of fortune due to disobedience and the resulting divine judgment. This imagery is also echoed in the New Testament, where Jesus uses the metaphor of thorns to describe the cares of the world that choke the word, making it unfruitful (<a href="/mark/4-18.htm">Mark 4:18-19</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book. He prophesied during the reigns of several kings of Judah, including Ahaz, to whom this prophecy was directed.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, where Jerusalem is located. This prophecy is directed towards the people of Judah during a time of political and military turmoil.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/k/king_ahaz.htm">King Ahaz</a></b><br>The king of Judah at the time of this prophecy. He was known for his lack of faith in God and reliance on foreign alliances.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/b/briers_and_thorns.htm">Briers and Thorns</a></b><br>Symbolic of desolation and judgment, these represent the consequences of turning away from God.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/v/vines_and_shekels.htm">Vines and Shekels</a></b><br>Vines symbolize prosperity and abundance, while shekels of silver indicate wealth. Their loss signifies the impending judgment and desolation due to disobedience.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a></b><br><a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23</a> serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of turning away from God. Just as Judah faced desolation, we too can experience spiritual barrenness when we prioritize worldly alliances over divine guidance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_faithfulness.htm">The Importance of Faithfulness</a></b><br>The prophecy highlights the importance of remaining faithful to God. In times of trouble, rather than seeking security in worldly solutions, we should trust in God's promises and guidance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/symbolism_of_prosperity_and_judgment.htm">Symbolism of Prosperity and Judgment</a></b><br>The transition from vines to briers symbolizes the loss of prosperity due to disobedience. This serves as a warning to evaluate our lives and ensure that our prosperity is rooted in God’s will.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/hope_amidst_judgment.htm">Hope Amidst Judgment</a></b><br>While the prophecy speaks of judgment, it also implies the possibility of restoration. God’s discipline is meant to bring us back to Him, offering hope for renewal and redemption.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_7.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 7</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_she_a_virgin_or_a_young_woman.htm">Is she a virgin or a young woman?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_delayed_hope_affect_emotions.htm">Who is the bread, light, door, shepherd, resurrection, way, vine?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_no_evidence_of_god's_vineyard.htm">If Isaiah 27:2-3 depicts God personally tending a vineyard, why is there no archeological evidence or historical record of such a divine vineyard?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_god_reconcile_casting_away.htm">John 15:6: How does a loving God reconcile casting away 'unfruitful branches' into fire with other biblical depictions of mercy?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/7.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(23) <span class= "bld">Where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings.</span>--The words seem to contain an allusive reference to <a href="/songs/8-11.htm" title="Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard to keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.">Song of Solomon 8:11</a>, and are therefore worth noting as bearing on the date of that book. There, however, the sum represents the annual produce of the vineyard, here the rent of the vines at a shekel each, a high rent apparently, and indicating a choice quality of vine. The costly vineyards of the hills of Judah should be left to run wild without a keeper (<a href="/isaiah/5-10.htm" title="Yes, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.">Isaiah 5:10</a>), and thorns and briers would rapidly cover it. "Silverling" was an old English word for any silver coin, and appears in Tyndale's version of <a href="/acts/19-19.htm" title="Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.">Acts 19:19</a>, and Coverdale's of <a href="/judges/9-4.htm" title="And they gave him three score and ten pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light persons, which followed him.">Judges 9:4</a>; <a href="/judges/16-5.htm" title="And the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and we will give you every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.">Judges 16:5</a>; here it stands for "shekel." The modern rent is said to be a piastre (2锟絛.) for each vine; the shekel was worth 2s. 3 d. (Kay).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/7.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 23.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">A thousand vines at a thousand silverlings</span>. By "silverlings" our translators mean "pieces of silver," probably shekels. "A thousand vines at a thousand shekels" may mean either a thousand vines worth that amount, or a thousand vines rented at that sum annually (comp. <a href="/songs/8-11.htm">Song of Solomon 8:11</a>). The latter would point to vineyards of unusual goodness, since the shekel is <span class="accented">at least</span> eighteen pence, and the present rent of a vineyard in Palestine is at the rate of a piastre for each vine, or 2½d. The general meaning would seem to be that not even the best vineyards would be cultivated, but would lie waste, and grow only "briers and thorns." <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/7-23.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">And on that</span><br /><span class="heb">הַה֔וּא</span> <span class="translit">(ha·hū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm">Strong's 1931: </a> </span><span class="str2">He, self, the same, this, that, as, are</span><br /><br /><span class="word">day,</span><br /><span class="heb">בַּיּ֣וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(bay·yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in every</span><br /><span class="heb">כָל־</span> <span class="translit">(ḵāl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">place</span><br /><span class="heb">מָק֗וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(mā·qō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4725.htm">Strong's 4725: </a> </span><span class="str2">A standing, a spot, a condition</span><br /><br /><span class="word">where</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲשֶׁ֧ר</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">there used to be</span><br /><span class="heb">וְהָיָה֙</span> <span class="translit">(wə·hā·yāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a thousand</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶ֥לֶף</span> <span class="translit">(’e·lep̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Number - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_505.htm">Strong's 505: </a> </span><span class="str2">A thousand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">vines</span><br /><span class="heb">גֶּ֖פֶן</span> <span class="translit">(ge·p̄en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1612.htm">Strong's 1612: </a> </span><span class="str2">A vine, the grape</span><br /><br /><span class="word">worth a thousand [shekels]</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּאֶ֣לֶף</span> <span class="translit">(bə·’e·lep̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_505.htm">Strong's 505: </a> </span><span class="str2">A thousand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of silver,</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּ֑סֶף</span> <span class="translit">(kā·sep̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3701.htm">Strong's 3701: </a> </span><span class="str2">Silver, money</span><br /><br /><span class="word">there will be only</span><br /><span class="heb">יִֽהְיֶ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(yih·yeh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> </span><span class="str2">To fall out, come to pass, become, be</span><br /><br /><span class="word">thorns</span><br /><span class="heb">וְלַשַּׁ֖יִת</span> <span class="translit">(wə·laš·ša·yiṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7898.htm">Strong's 7898: </a> </span><span class="str2">Scrub, trash, wild growth of weeds, briers</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and briers.</span><br /><span class="heb">לַשָּׁמִ֥יר</span> <span class="translit">(laš·šā·mîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8068.htm">Strong's 8068: </a> </span><span class="str2">A thorn, a gem, the diamond</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/7-23.htm">Isaiah 7:23 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/7-23.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 7:23 It will happen in that day that (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/7-22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 7:22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 7:22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/7-24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 7:24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 7:24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>