Isaiah 7:16-25

16For before the boy knows to refuse evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.

17Adonai will bring—on you, on your people and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—the king of Assyria!

18In that day Adonai will whistle for the fly at the source of the Nile of Egypt and for the bee in the land of Assyria.

19Then they will come, all of them— and will settle in the steep wadis and in the clefts of the cliffs and in all the thorn bushes and in all the watering holes.

20In that day Adonai will shave— with a razor hired beyond the River— with the king of Assyria— the head and the hair of the legs, and even clip off the beard.

21In that day it will be that a man will rear a calf and two sheep,

22and from the abundant milk they give, he will eat curds— for anyone left in the land will eat curds and honey.

23In that day it will be that every place where there were 1,000 vines worth 1,000 silver shekels will become briers and thorns.

24With arrows and bows one will come there, since all the land will become briers and thorns.

25As for all the hills that were tilled with the hoe—you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns. Instead it will be for grazing of oxen and roaming of sheep.