Isaiah 7:22 - Exposition

For the abundance of milk that they shall give . The small number of the cattle will allow of each having abundant pasture. Hence they will give an abundance of milk. He shall eat butter ; rather, curds—the solid food most readily obtained from milk (comp. above, Isaiah 7:15 ). Curdled milk and wild honey should form the simple diet of the remnant left in the land. It is, of course, possible to understand this in a spiritual sense, of simple doctrine and gospel honey out of the flinty rock of the Law; but there is no reason to think that the prophet intended his words in any but the most literal sense.