Isaiah 30:24 (LSB)

Passage

Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 30:22 And you will defile your graven images overlaid with your silver, and your molten images plated with your gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing and say to them, “Be gone!”

Isaiah 30:23 Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the produce of the ground, and it will be rich and fat; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

Isaiah 30:24 Also the oxen and the donkeys which work the ground will eat salted fodder, which has been winnowed with shovel and fork.

Isaiah 30:25 And it will be that on every lofty mountain and on every lifted up hill there will be streams running with water on the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Isaiah 30:26 And the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, on the day Yahweh binds up the fracture of His people and heals the bruise He has inflicted.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "oxen", "donkeys", "ground", "salted", "fodder", "been", "winnowed", and "shovel". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "oxen" and "donkeys", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 23's "Then He will give you rain for..." into verse 25's "And it will be that on every...", so "oxen" and "donkeys" 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 "donkeys" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.