Isaiah 7:16–25

^16kFor before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by ^lboth her kings. ^17mThe Lord will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father’s house—days that have not come since the day that ⁿEphraim departed from Judah.”

¹⁸And it shall come to pass in that day

That the Lord ^owill whistle for the fly

That is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt,

And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

¹⁹They will come, and all of them will rest

In the desolate valleys and in ^pthe clefts of the rocks,

And on all thorns and in all pastures.

²⁰In the same day the Lord will shave with a ^qhired ^rrazor,

With those from beyond ¹the River, with the king of Assyria,

The head and the hair of the legs,

And will also remove the beard.

²¹It shall be in that day

That a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;

²²So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give,

That he will eat curds;

For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.

²³It shall happen in that day,

That wherever there could be a thousand vines

Worth a thousand shekels of silver,

^sIt will be for briers and thorns.

²⁴With arrows and bows men will come there,

Because all the land will become briers and thorns.

²⁵And to any hill which could be dug with the hoe,

You will not go there for fear of briers and thorns;

But it will become a range for oxen

And a place for sheep to roam.