Isaiah 7:23-25

Isaiah 7:23-25

[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.  [24] and with bows  shall men come  thither; because all the land  shall become briers  and thorns.  [25] And on all hills  that shall be digged  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. 

What does Isaiah 7:23-25 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

Valuable farmland would revert to wilderness (cf. Isaiah 5:5-6), and it would only be good for hunting. Formerly cultivated land would be used for grazing because there would be so many briars and thorns and so few Israelites to take care of it.
"This ends Isaiah"s address to king Ahaz. He does not expressly say when Immanuel is to be born, but only what will take place before he has reached the riper age of boyhood,-namely, first, the devastation of Israel and Syria, and then the devastation of Judah itself, by the Assyrians." [1]