Isaiah 7:23 Meaning and Explanation
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Prosperous vineyards worth large sums will become overgrown wastelands.
The Context of Isaiah 7:23
Agricultural prosperity will be destroyed and land will become wilderness.
What Does Isaiah 7:23 Mean?
The economic scale intensifies the loss: where thousand-vine vineyards produced wealth measured in thousands of silver coins, thorns and briers will flourish instead. Cultivated land will revert to wilderness. This image emphasizes not just loss but the undoing of civilization—the transformation of carefully tended agricultural wealth into uncontrolled wild growth. The specificity of the economic loss (a thousand vines, a thousand silverlings) makes the devastation concrete and personal.
The progression of judgment imagery shows layers of loss: first military defeat and humiliation, then depleted herds and subsistence living, now the collapse of commercial agriculture. Every sector of Judah's economy and settled life will be affected. Land that required constant human labor and represented substantial investment will be abandoned to nature's reclamation.
Frequently Asked Questions About Isaiah 7:23
What does Isaiah 7:23 mean?
Prosperous vineyards worth large sums will become overgrown wastelands.
What is the context of Isaiah 7:23?
Agricultural prosperity will be destroyed and land will become wilderness.