25And 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.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep; …
The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. …
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-25)After the comfortable promises made to Ahaz as a branch of the house of David, here follow terrible threatenings against him, as a degenerate branch of that house; for though the loving-kindness of God shall not be utterly taken away, for the sake of David and the covenant made with him, yet his iniquity shall be chastened with the rod , and his sin with stripes. Let those that will not mix faith…
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