Isaiah 7:23It 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.
The setting
Jerusalem, ~734 BC. Isaiah warns King Ahaz as Assyrian armies threaten. The prophet describes vineyards that once produced enough wine to buy silver becoming wastelands near modern-day Israel/Palestine border regions.
The original word
kesef (כֶּסֶף) — silver, the currency of prosperity and trade
Why it matters
A thousand silver shekels was about 25 pounds of silver - enormous wealth for a vineyard
Read with care
What most readers miss in Isaiah 7:23
This describes PRODUCTIVE land, not wasteland - places that were thriving becoming desolate
Common misconceptionPeople think this is about naturally barren land, but it's about fertile, profitable vineyards becoming worthless - the complete reversal of prosperity.
The thread continues
Verses that echo Isaiah 7:23
Bible Genome reading
Isaiah 7:23 — Bible Genome reading
Emotional genome
Isaiah 7:23 comes from the book of Isaiah, written during the Divided Kingdom period. These words are attributed to Isaiah. The dominant emotion in this verse is anxious, with a comfort power of 10% and a tone that is prophetic. It belongs to the prophecy genre of biblical literature. Key themes include judgment, desolation. Notable phrases: briers and thorns. This verse contains prophecy.
Emotionally similar
Verses that meet the same anxious
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“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.”
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“The evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?"”
— Acts 19:15
“I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'”
— Acts 22:7
“When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is har…”
— Acts 26:14
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