Isaiah 7:16-18

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Before the boy learns to reject evil and choose good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned. ¹⁷ The Lord will bring upon you, upon your people, and upon your families days unlike any that have come since the day Ephraim broke away from Judah—the king of Assyria.”

The devastated land

¹⁸ On that day, the Lord will whistle for the flies from the remotest streams of Egypt and for the bees that are in the land of Assyria.