“On that day,
Every place where
There used to be a thousand vines,
Worth a thousand shekels of silver,
Will become briers.
They will become thorns.
With bow and arrows,
One will go there.
All the land
Will be briers and thorns.
All the hills
That used to be hoed with a hoe,
One will not go there
For fear of the briers,
For fear of the thorns.
But they will become a place
Where cattle are let loose.
They will become a place
Where sheep tread.”
On this faithful day, the vineyards will shrivel up. Thousands of vines worth about $23,000 in silver shekels in today’s money would be abandoned to thorns and briers. Places that were hoed before would now be overrun with briers and thorns. People would be afraid to go there because of these briers and thorns. Only the cattle would roam all over the place. The sheep would also tread on any crops that might be growing. Things would be bad, as the land was devastated.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 