That Day

¹⁷ “Yahweh will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your ancestor^[a] days that have not come since the day Ephraim departed from Judah: the king of Assyria.” ¹⁸ And this shall happen: On that day, Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the stream of Egypt and the bee that is in the land of Assyria. ¹⁹ And all of them will come and settle in the rivers of the cliffs and in the clefts of the rocks and on all of the thornbushes and watering places. ²⁰ On that day, the Lord will shave the head and the hair of the feet with a razor of the one hired from beyond the river—with the king of Assyria—and it will even take off the beard. ²¹ And this shall happen: on that day, a young man will keep a young cow of the herd and two sheep alive. ²² And this shall happen: because of the abundance of milk production, he will eat curds, for every one that is left in the midst of the land will eat curds and honey. ²³ And this shall happen on that day: Every place where there are a thousand vines^[b] for a thousand silver pieces will become briers,^[c] and it will be thornbushes.^{[d] 24} One will go there with arrows and bow, for all of the land will be briers^[e] and thornbushes.^{[f] 25} And as for all of the hills that they hoed with the hoe, you will not go there, for fear of briers^[g] and thornbushes.^[h] And it will become like pastureland for cattle and overtrodden land for sheep.