Isaiah 7:25

And on all hills ... -All the fertile places in the mountains that used to be cultivated with the spade. Vineyards were often planted on the sides of hills; and those places were among the most productive and fertile in the land; seeIsaiah 5:1. The mattock -The spade; the garden hoe; or the weeding-hook. An instrument chiefly used, probably, in vineyards. There shall not come thither -There shall not be. The fear of briers and thorns -This does not make sense; or if it does, it is not a sense consistent with the connection. The idea of the whole passage is, that the land, even the most fertile parts of it, should be given up to briers and thorns; that is, to desolation.