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Isaiah 7:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Isaiah 7:16-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.(A) 17 The Lord will bring on you and on your people and on your ancestral house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria.”(B)
18 On that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is at the sources of the streams of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.(C)
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Isaiah 7:16-18
New International Version
Isaiah 7:16-18
New International Version
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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