16 For before the child learn to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land shall be forsaken, whose two kings thou fearest.

17 The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy ’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; the king of Assyria.

18 And it shall be in that. day, that the LORD shall hiss to the ﬂy that is at the end of the rivers of Egypt, and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

19 And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the precipitous valleys, and in the crevices of the rocks, and upon all thorn bushes, and upon all pastures.

14. ‘shall call.’ Heb. has here a form resembling pers.15. ‘as he learneth,’ or, ‘when he knoweth...’; less probably. may know...’16 Lit. ‘forsaken shall be the land, as to which thou fearest, before the face of her two kings ’ (Kay).18 ‘rivers’: perhaps ‘Nile-arms’ or ‘canals’: plur. of word used only of the Nile.19. ‘pastures.’ Some render, ‘bushes.’

20 In that day shall the LORD shave with the razor that is hired, (which is) beyond the river, the king of Assyria; the head, and. the hair of the feet, and the beard also shall it sweep away.