Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers - (Isaiah 5:6; Isaiah 7:23.)
Yea, upon all the houses of joy (in) the joyous city - pleasure houses outside of Jerusalem; not Jerusalem itself, but other cities destroyed by Sennacherib in his march (Isaiah 7:20-25). However, the prophecy in its full accomplishment refers to the utter desolation of Judea and its capital by Rome, and subsequently, previous to the second coming of the King (Psalms 118:26; Luke 13:35; Luke 19:38): "the joyous city" is in this view Jerusalem (Isaiah 22:2).