Isaiah 7:17-25

Modern English Version

¹⁷ The Lord shall bring upon you, and upon your people, and upon your father’s house, days that have not come from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.”

¹⁸ In that day the Lord shall whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. ¹⁹ They shall come, and all of them shall rest in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and on all thorns, and on all bushes. ²⁰ In that same day the Lord shall shave with a hired razor, from regions beyond the River,^[a] with the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the legs, and it shall also remove the beard. ²¹ In that day a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep, ²² and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he shall eat curds; for everyone who is left in the land shall eat curds and honey. ²³ In that day every place where there were a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels^[b] of silver, shall become briers and thorns. ²⁴ With arrows and with bows shall men come there because all the land shall become briers and thorns. ²⁵ On all hills that used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns. But it shall be for pasturing oxen and for sheep to tread.