18. On that day the Lord will whistle to the flythat is at the farthest streams of the Nileand to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
19. All of them will come and settlein the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks, in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.
20. On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River — the king of Assyria — to shave the head, the hair on the legs, and to remove the beard as well.