Pay special attention to the phrase "In that day" scattered throughout today's reading. (and the rest of the prophets, for that matter) Here are three small things for you today. First, several prophesies show that Egypt and Assyria will ultimately turn to God. This would have been not easy to swallow for the Jewish people. They had lived in Egypt for 430 years, many of those as slaves. The Assyrians had brutally oppressed them. To think that these two nations could turn to the Lord would have been difficult to imagine if not utterly offensive to the hearers. But there is another side to this prophesy. In Jeremiah, we will see that the people of Judah turn to Egypt and Assyria for help rather than to the Lord. By Jeremiah, the people of Judah will be steeped in idolatry and will have rejected God as their King. (again) So, no matter how you slice it, the fact that the people of Egypt and Assyria will turn to God is a shame for the people of Israel. Either because they were wicked oppressors to the Hebrews or because the Hebrews sought them for strength rather than seeking God, and now these pagan nations have turned to God first.