Yahweh’s Covenant of Peace

²⁵ “I will cut a ^(A)covenant of peace with them and ^(B)cause harmful beasts to cease from the land so that they may ^(C)live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods. ²⁶ I will make them and the places all around My hill a ^(D)blessing. And I will cause ^(E)showers to come down in their season; they will be showers of ^(F)blessing. ²⁷ Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit, and the earth will yield its produce, and they will be ^(G)secure on their land. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have ^(H)broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them. ²⁸ They will no longer be plunder to the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not devour them; but they will ^(I)live securely, and no one will make them tremble.

^8 (A)After many days you will be mustered; in the last years you will come into the land that is ^[a]restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been ^(B)gathered from many peoples to the ^(C)mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but ^[b]its people were brought out from the peoples, and they are ^(D)living securely, all of them.