¹⁷“Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestorⁱ days that have not come since the day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria.” ¹⁸And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that is in the land of Assyria. ¹⁹And all of them will come and settle in the rivers of the cliffs and in the clefts of the rocks and on all of the thornbushes and watering places. ²⁰On that day, the Lord will shave the head and the hair of the feet with a razor of the one hired from beyond the river—with the king of Assyria—and it will even take off the beard. ²¹And this shall happen: on that day, a young man will keep a young cow of the herd and two sheep alive. ²²And this shall happen: because of the abundance of milk production, he will eat curds, for every one that is left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey. ²³And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines^j for a thousand silver pieces will become briers,^k and it will be thornbushes.^l ²⁴One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers^m and thornbushes.ⁿ ²⁵And as for all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, for fear of briers^o and thornbushes.^p And it will become like pastureland for cattle and overtrodden land for sheep.

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Footnotes

hLiterally “the land which you dread will be abandoned because of the face of her two kings”
iOr “father”
jHebrew “vine”
kHebrew “brier”
lHebrew “thornbush”
mHebrew “brier”
nHebrew “thornbush”
oHebrew “brier”
pHebrew “thornbush”