23 In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels[a] of silver, will become (A)briers and thorns.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 7:23 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

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)

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Footnotes

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

I will make it a waste;
    it shall not be pruned or hoed,
    and (A)briers and thorns shall grow up;
(B)I will also command the clouds
    that they rain no 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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The Parable of the Tenants

33 (A)“Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted (B)a vineyard (C)and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and (D)leased it to tenants, and (E)went into another country.

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The Parable of the Tenants(A)

33 “Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted(B) a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower.(C) Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place.(D)

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But (A)if it bears thorns and thistles, it is worthless and near to being cursed, (B)and its end is to be burned.

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But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless and is in danger of being cursed.(A) In the end it will be burned.

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26 I looked, and behold, the (A)fruitful land was a desert,
    and all its cities were laid in ruins
    before the Lord, before (B)his fierce anger.

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26 I looked, and the fruitful land was a desert;(A)
    all its towns lay in ruins(B)
    before the Lord, before his fierce anger.(C)

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12 (A)Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vine,
13 (B)for the soil of my people
    growing up in thorns and briers,
(C)yes, for all the joyous houses
    in the exultant city.
14 For the palace is forsaken,
    the populous city deserted;
the hill and the watchtower
    will become dens forever,
(D)a joy of wild donkeys,
    a pasture of flocks;

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12 Beat your breasts(A) for the pleasant fields,
    for the fruitful vines(B)
13 and for the land of my people,
    a land overgrown with thorns and briers(C)
yes, mourn(D) for all houses of merriment
    and for this city of revelry.(E)
14 The fortress(F) will be abandoned,
    the noisy city deserted;(G)
citadel and watchtower(H) will become a wasteland forever,
    the delight of donkeys,(I) a pasture for flocks,(J)

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