They won't dwell in Yahweh's land; But Ephraim will return to Egypt, And they will eat unclean food in Assyria.
Mauchline believed that this verse prophesied that Israel would go to both Egypt and Assyria,[12] thus passing over the obvious parallelism employed and taking the passage literally.  No one can deny that even that understanding of the prophecy was exactly fulfilled!  As Clarke noted many years ago, with the onset of the Assyrian invasion: