I will make a covenant with them at that time, a covenant with the wild animals of the field, with the birds of the air, and with the creatures of the ground. I will banish the battle bow, the sword, and war from the earth. I will cause my people to lie down where it is safe.

Therefore the land will mourn, and all who live there will languish, along with the wild animals of the field and the birds of the air. Even the fish in the sea will disappear.

Their word is falsely given as they make their agreements; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Samaria's king will float away like driftwood on the surface of water.

The more I called out to them, the farther they fled from me; they sacrificed to Baals, burning incense to carved images.

Jacob fled into the land of Aram; Israel served there to obtain his wife, tending sheep to gain his wife.