²⁰ [In that day] The Lord will ·hire Assyria and use it like a razor to punish Judah [^Lshave with a razor hired beyond the River (Euphrates)—the king of Assyria]. ·It will be as if the Lord is shaving the hair from Judah’s head and body and beard [^L…—the head, the hair of the feet and cutting away the beard; ^C“hair of the feet” is likely a euphemism for pubic hair; such shaving was an act of humiliation].