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16 For before the na’ar (boy) shall understand to refuse the rah, and choose the tov, the adamah (land) will be desolate, of whose two melachim thou art afraid.

17 Hashem shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon the Bais of thy father, yamim such as have not come since the yom when Ephrayim departed from Yehudah [2Kgs 15:29; 16:9]: even Melech Ashur (Assyria).

18 And it shall come to pass in that yom, that Hashem shall whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the Nile of Mitzrayim, and for the bee that is in Eretz Ashur.

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16 for before the boy knows(A) enough to reject the wrong and choose the right,(B) the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.(C) 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away(D) from Judah—he will bring the king of Assyria.(E)

Assyria, the Lord’s Instrument

18 In that day(F) the Lord will whistle(G) for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.(H)

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