As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.
The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid.
Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed among the ruins of the rich.
They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes.
Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns.
The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the Lord pasture them like lambs in a meadow?
The land by the sea will become pastures having wells for shepherds and pens for flocks.