Isaiah 30:24 (DBY)

Passage

and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 30:22 And ye shall defile the silver covering of your graven images, and the gold overlaying of your molten images; thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth: Out! shalt thou say unto it.

Isaiah 30:23 And he will give the rain of thy seed with which thou shalt sow the ground; and bread, the produce of the ground, and it shall be fat and rich. In that day shall thy cattle feed in large pastures;

Isaiah 30:24 and the oxen and the asses that till the ground shall eat salted provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

Isaiah 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain and upon every hill that is lifted up, brooks [and] water-courses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 30:26 And the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that Jehovah bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the wound of their stroke.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "oxen", "asses", "till", "ground", "shall", "salted", "provender", and "hath". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "oxen" and "asses", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "And he will give the rain of..." into verse 25's "And there shall be upon every high...", so "oxen" and "asses" belong inside that flow. In Isaiah context, the local focus is the Holy One of Israel, judgment and restoration, the servant of the LORD, and Zion's hope.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "oxen" and "asses" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.