16. “For before the Child knows to refuse evil and choose the good, the land that you dread is to be forsaken by both her sovereigns.
17. “יהוה brings on you and your people and your father’s house days that have not come since the day that Ephrayim turned away from Yehuḏah – the sovereign of Ashshur.”
18. And it shall be in that day that יהוה whistles for the fly that is in the farthest part of the rivers of Mitsrayim, and for the bee that is in the land of Ashshur.
19. And they shall come, and all of them shall rest in the steep ravines and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all weeds and in all pastures.
20. In that day יהוה shall shave with a razor hired beyond the River – with the sovereign of Ashshur – the head and the hair of the legs, and also remove the beard.
21. And it shall be in that day that a man keeps alive a young cow and two sheep.
22. And it shall be, that he shall eat curds because of the plenty milk he gets, for everyone left in the land shall eat curds.
23. And it shall be in that day, every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand sheqels of silver, let it be for thornbushes and weeds.
24. With arrows and bows one shall go there, because all the land shall be thornbushes and weeds.
25. And to all the hills which were tilled with the hoe, you do not go for fear of thornbushes and weeds; but it shall be for sending oxen to, and a place for sheep to roam.