ECB(i)
17 Yah Veh brings upon you and upon your people and upon the house of your father, days such as came not - even from the day Ephrayim turned aside from Yah Hudah by the sovereign of Ashshur.
18 And so be it, in that day, Yah Veh hisses for the fly in the end of the rivers of Misrayim and for the bee in the land of Ashshur:
19 and they all come and rest in the wadies of desolations and in the holes of the rocks and upon all thorns and upon all pastures.
20 In the same day, Adonay, by the sovereign of Ashshur, with a razor, shaves the hireling beyond the river - the head, and the hair of the feet: yes, also scrapes away the beard.
21 And so be it, in that day, that a man keeps alive a young heifer of the herd, and two flock;
22 and so be it, for the abundance of milk that they work he eats butter: for every one who remains in the land eats butter and honey.
23 And so be it, in that day, so be it, that every place where there are a thousand vines worth a thousand silverlings, it becomes for briers and thorns:
24 he comes there with arrows and with bows; because all the land becomes briers and thorns:
25 and on all hills hoed with the hoe, there comes not the fear of briers and thorns: but it becomes for the sending forth of oxen, and for the trampling of lambs.