And on that day, in every place that had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels of silver, only briers and thorns will be found.
Parallel translations
- WEB It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.
- KJV 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.
- ESV In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.
- NKJV It shall happen in that day, That wherever there could be a thousand vines Worth a thousand shekels of silver, It will be for briers and thorns.
- NASB And it will come about on that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns.
- NLT In that day the lush vineyards, now worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become patches of briers and thorns.
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Quick answer
Once-valuable vineyards will be overrun with briers and thorns, a picture of ruined cultivation.
Overview
Land once worth a thousand silver shekels for its thousand vines will become a wilderness of thorns. The reversal of prosperity pictures the curse of judgment falling on a fruitful land. Briers and thorns recall the curse on the ground in Genesis 3, signaling a return to wildness under God's judgment.
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- Isa 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- Song 8:11–12Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-hamon. He leased it to the tenants. For its fruit, each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver.
- Matt 21:33Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- Jer 4:26I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert. All its cities were torn down before the LORD, before His fierce anger.
- Isa 32:12–14Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vines,
- Heb 6:8But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
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