¹⁵ He’ll eat cheese^[a] and honey, when he knows enough to reject what’s wrong and choose what’s right. ¹⁶ However, before the youth knows enough to reject what’s wrong and choose what’s right, the land whose two kings you dread will be devastated.”

Conquest by Assyria

¹⁷ “The Lord will bring to you, to your people, and to your ancestor’s house such a time^[b] as has never been since Ephraim broke away from Judah—the king of Assyria will come.^[c]