Isaiah 7:16–25

^16hFor before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be ⁱdeserted. ^17jThe Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that ^kEphraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”

¹⁸In that day the Lord will ^lwhistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. ¹⁹And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and ^min the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.⁹

²⁰In that day ⁿthe Lord will ^oshave with a razor that is ^phired beyond ^qthe River¹⁰—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.

^21rIn that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep, ²²and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat ^scurds and honey.

²³In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels¹¹ of silver, will become ^tbriers and thorns. ^24uWith bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. ^25vAnd as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear ^tof briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.