²³In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels¹¹ of silver, will become ^tbriers and thorns. ²⁴^uWith bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.

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Footnotes

11A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

Cross references

tch. 5:6
u[Judg. 5:11]

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns. Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

And on that day

every place where there were a thousand vines,

worth a thousand pieces of silver,

will become thorns and briers.

A man will go there with bow and arrows

because the whole land will be thorns and briers.

NLTNew Living Translation

In that day the lush vineyards, now worth 1,000 pieces of silver, will become patches of briers and thorns. The entire land will become a vast expanse of briers and thorns, a hunting ground overrun by wildlife.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines for a thousand silver pieces will become briers, and it will be thornbushes. One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers and thornbushes.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.

With arrows and with bows shall men come thither;

Because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

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