Isaiah 7:16-18

New International Version

¹⁶ for before the boy knows^(A) enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,^(B) the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.^{(C) 17} 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^(D) from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.^(E)”

Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument

¹⁸ In that day^(F) the Lord will whistle^(G) for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.^(H)