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The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah-he will bring the king of Assyria."

In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.

They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes.

In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the River ^(F18) -the king of Assyria-to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to take off your beards also.

In that day, a man will keep alive a young cow and two goats.

And because of the abundance of the milk they give, he will have curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey.

In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, there will be only briers and thorns.

Men will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.

As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.