20. The Lord will use Assyria to punish Judah. Assyria will be hired and used like a razor. It will be as if the Lord is shaving the hair from Judah’s head and legs and is shaving off Judah’s beard.
21. “At that time a person will be able to keep only one young cow and two sheep alive.
22. There will be only enough milk for that person to eat milk curds. All who remain in the land will go back to eating only milk curds and honey.
23. In this land there are now vineyards that have 1,000 grapevines. These grapevines are worth about 25 pounds of silver. But these fields will become full of weeds and thorns.
24. The land will become wild and useful only as a hunting ground.
25. People once worked and grew food on these hills. But at that time people will not go there. The land will be filled with weeds and thorns. Only sheep and cattle will go to those places.”