Isaiah 7:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶ However, before the youth knows enough to reject what’s wrong and choose what’s right, the land whose two kings you dread will be devastated.”

Conquest by Assyria

¹⁷ “The Lord will bring to you, to your people, and to your ancestor’s house such a time^[a] as has never been since Ephraim broke away from Judah—the king of Assyria will come.^[b]

¹⁸ “At that time,^[c] the Lord will call^[d] for flies that will come from far away—from the headwaters of Egypt’s rivers—and for bees that are in the land of Assyria.