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Yes, I will make it a ruin:
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    but will be overgrown with thorns and briers;
I will command the clouds
    not to rain upon 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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23 [a]On that day every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand pieces of silver shall become briers and thorns. 24 One shall have to go there with bow and arrows, for all the country shall be briers and thorns.(A) 25 But as for all the hills which were hoed with a mattock, for fear of briers and thorns you will not go there; they shall become a place for cattle to roam and sheep to trample.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:23–25 Cf. note on 5:5–6.

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

[a]You who were full of noise,
    tumultuous city,
    exultant town?(A)
Your slain are not slain with the sword,
    nor killed in battle.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:2–3 The retreat of Judah’s soldiers is a further reason that rejoicing is not in order.

you town so full of commotion,
    you city of tumult(A) and revelry?(B)
Your slain(C) were not killed by the sword,(D)
    nor did they die in battle.

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13 Its castles shall be overgrown with thorns,
    its fortresses with thistles and briers.
It shall become an abode for jackals,
    a haunt for ostriches.(A)

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13 Thorns(A) will overrun her citadels,
    nettles and brambles her strongholds.(B)
She will become a haunt for jackals,(C)
    a home for owls.(D)

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