I will (A)lay it waste;
It will not be pruned nor hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also command the clouds not to (B)rain on it.”

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I will make it a wasteland,(A)
    neither pruned nor cultivated,
    and briers and thorns(B) will grow there.
I will command the clouds
    not to rain(C) on it.”

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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.

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23 And it will come about on that day, (A)that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become (B)briars and thorns.

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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)

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Footnotes

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

23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.

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Also the (A)high places of Aven, the (B)sin of Israel, will be destroyed;
(C)Thorns and thistles will grow on their altars;
Then they will (D)say to the mountains,
“Cover us!” And to the hills, “Fall on us!”

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The high places(A) of wickedness[a](B) will be destroyed—
    it is the sin of Israel.
Thorns(C) and thistles will grow up
    and cover their altars.(D)
Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”(E)
    and to the hills, “Fall on us!”(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:8 Hebrew aven, a reference to Beth Aven (a derogatory name for Bethel); see verse 5.

The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

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