Isaiah 7

As I read the words of Isaiah to Ahaz, I can't but help but relate the prophecies to our day. Because of Judah's failure to keep the commandments and remain faithful, Isaiah basically foretells of the physical and economical decline that would come to the nation even that -

"The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria." (Old Testament | Isaiah 7:17)

One of those prophecies was physical in that -

"In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard." (Old Testament | Isaiah 7:20)

I picture in my mind a head or the nation of Judah with all its people compared to the hair of the head. Isaiah prophesied that the day would come that the hair would be removed from the head as if by a razor. What a terrible warning. In other words the land would be desolate of people. With the land being desolate -

"...it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes." (Old Testament | Isaiah 7:18 - 19)

And the very land that was so economically blessed -

"...that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns." (Old Testament | Isaiah 7:23)

And of the few that will remain will be poor such -

"...that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land." (Old Testament | Isaiah 7:21 - 22)

And -

"With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle." (Old Testament | Isaiah 7:24 - 25)

Which means to me that the remaining people will have to hunt for food and raise lesser cattle or in other words sheeps and goats. We know that this prophecy was fulfilled. I can't help but ask that would not the same disobedience and unfaithfulness cause the same in our day? I am reminded of the prophecies in our day -

"Therefore, let your hearts be comforted concerning Zion; for all flesh is in mine hands; be still and know that I am God.
17 Zion shall not be moved out of her place, notwithstanding her children are scattered.
18 They that remain, and are pure in heart, shall return, and come to their inheritances, they and their children, with songs of everlasting joy, to build up the waste places of Zion—" (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 101:16 - 18)

Note that those that remain or the faithful shall return to build up waste places or places abandoned much like the prophecies of Isaiah.