And you will no longer be able to go to all the hills which used to be cultivated because they will be filled with briars and thorns. It will be a place for turning oxen loose and letting sheep run.”
The cities of Aroer will be deserted. These cities will be used for sheep, which will lie down in them. There will be no one to disturb those sheep.
Then lambs will graze as if they were in their own pasture, and foreigners will eat among the ruins of the rich.
All of them will come and settle in the deep valleys, in the cracks in the cliffs, on all the thornbushes, and at all the water holes.
People will come there with bows and arrows ⌞to hunt⌟ because the whole land will be filled with briars and thorns.
“The people of Israel are as stubborn as a bull. How can the Lord feed them like lambs in an open pasture?
The seacoast will become pastureland with meadows for shepherds and fenced-off places for sheep.