Isaiah 7:17-25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁷ The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on your ancestral house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria.”^(A)

¹⁸ On that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is at the sources of the streams of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.^{(B) 19} And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the clefts of the rocks and on all the thornbushes and on all the watering holes.^[a](C)

²⁰ On that day the Lord will shave with a razor hired beyond the River—with the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will take off the beard as well.^(D)

²¹ On that day one will keep alive a young cow and two sheep ²² and will eat curds because of the abundance of milk that they give, for everyone left in the land shall eat curds and honey.

²³ On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns. ²⁴ With bow and arrows one will go there, for all the land will be briers and thorns, ²⁵ and as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not go there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.