Isaiah 30:24 (GNV)

Passage

The oxen also and the yong asses, that till the ground, shall eate cleane prouender, which is winowed with the shoouel and with the fanne.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 30:22 And ye shall pollute the couering of the images of siluer, and the riche ornament of thine images of golde, and cast them away as a menstruous cloth, and thou shalt say vnto it, Get thee hence.

Isaiah 30:23 Then shall hee giue raine vnto thy seede, when thou shalt sowe the ground, and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shalbe fat and as oyle: in that day shall thy cattell be fed in large pastures.

Isaiah 30:24 The oxen also and the yong asses, that till the ground, shall eate cleane prouender, which is winowed with the shoouel and with the fanne.

Isaiah 30:25 And vpon euery hie mountaine, and vpon euery hie hill shall there be riuers and streames of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers shall fall.

Isaiah 30:26 Moreouer, the light of the moone shall be as the light of the sunne, and the light of the sunne shalbe seuen folde, and like the light of seuen dayes in the day that the Lord shall binde vp the breach of his people, and heale the stroke of their wound.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "Then shall hee giue raine vnto thy..." into verse 25's "And vpon euery hie mountaine and vpon...", so "oxen" and "yong" 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 "yong" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.