Yahweh will bring on you
and on your people
and on your father’s household
days that have not come since the day
Ephrayim departed from Yehudah
– the king of Ashshur (Asssyria).
On that day Yahweh will whistle to the fly
that’s at the end of the streams of Misrayim [Egypt]
and to the bee that’s in the country of Ashshur.
They’ll come and settle down,
all of them,
in the steep wadis,
in the craggy cliffs,
in all the thorn bushes
and in all the watering holes.
On that day the Lord will shave with a razor
hired beyond the River (with the king of Ashshur)
the head
and the hair on the feet,
and it will also sweep away the beard.
On that day someone will keep alive a heifer from the cattle
and two from the flock,
but from the quantity of the milk they make he will eat curds,
because everyone who’s left within the country will eat curds and syrup.
On that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines
worth a thousand sheqels of silver
will be for briar and for thorn.
With arrows and a bow someone will come there,
because the entire country will be briar and thorn.
But all the hills that are hoed with a hoe
– the fear of briar and thorn won’t come there;
it will be for the roaming of oxen and for the trampling of sheep.
Goldingay, John; Goldingay,The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.