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"The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father'shousesuchdays as have nevercomesince the day that Ephraimseparated from Judah, the king of Assyria."
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In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regionsbeyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria ), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will alsoremove the beard.
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And it will come about in that day, that everyplacewhere* there used to be a thousandvines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will becomebriars and thorns.
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As for all the hillswhich used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not gothere for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturingoxen and for sheep to trample.