For fear of the briers and thorns, you will no longer traverse the hills once tilled by the hoe; they will become places for oxen to graze and sheep to trample. Cross References Isaiah 5:17 Lambs will graze as in their own pastures, and strangers will feed in the ruins of the wealthy. Isaiah 7:19 And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes and watering holes. Isaiah 7:24 Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. Hosea 4:16 For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow? Zephaniah 2:6 So the seacoast will become a land of pastures, with wells for shepherds and folds for sheep. Treasury of Scripture And on all hills that shall be dig with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle. but it Isaiah 7:21,22 Isaiah 13:20-22 Isaiah 17:2 |