Isaiah 7:17-25 - Exposition

THE DANGER TO JUDAH FROM ASSYRIA . The perversity of Ahaz, already rebuked in Isaiah 7:13 , is further punished by a threat, that upon him, and upon his people, and upon his father's house, shall come shortly a dire calamity. The very power whose aid he is himself bent on invoking shall be the scourge to chastise both king and people ( Isaiah 7:17-20 ). The land shall be made bare as by a razor ( Isaiah 7:20 ). Cultivation shall cease; its scant inhabitants will support themselves by keeping a few cows and sheep ( Isaiah 7:21 ), and will nourish themselves on dairy produce, and the honey that the wild bees produce ( Isaiah 7:22 ). Briers and thorns will come up everywhere; wild beasts will increase; cattle will browse on the hills that were once carefully cultivated to their summits ( Isaiah 7:23-25 ).