“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.”
In that day, every place where a thousand vines grew, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns—the judgment devastates the cultivated land; what was valuable and carefully tended becomes worthless and wild. The specific economic detail (thousand vines worth thousand shekels) emphasizes the scale of loss; valuable productive land becomes barren. The transformation to briars and thorns (symbols of curse and judgment in Scripture) suggests that cultivation and order give way to chaos and wildness. This verse emphasizes the economic devastation that accompanies military invasion and occupation; the land itself becomes unusable.
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