The Lord's Covenant of Peace

25 (A)“I will make with them a covenant of peace and (B)banish wild beasts from the land, (C)so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

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26 (A)I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be (B)an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land[a] and (C)multiply them, and will (D)set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 37:26 Hebrew lacks in their land

(A)The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
    and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
    and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze;
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
    and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
(B)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all (C)my holy mountain;
(D)for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

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(A)I will give peace in the land, and (B)you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And (C)I will remove harmful beasts from the land, (D)and the sword shall not go through your land.

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28 (A)They shall no more be a prey to the nations, (B)nor shall the beasts of the land devour them. (C)They shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.

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16 In those days Judah will be saved, (A)and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: (B)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

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No lion shall be there,
    nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;
they shall not be found there,
    but the redeemed shall walk there.

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In peace I will both (A)lie down and sleep;
    for you alone, O Lord, make me (B)dwell in safety.

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22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
    and shall not fear (A)the beasts of the earth.

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Benediction

20 Now (A)may the God of peace (B)who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, (C)the great shepherd of the sheep, by (D)the blood of the eternal covenant,

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13 (A)It is he who shall build the temple of the Lord (B)and shall bear royal honor, and shall sit and rule on his throne. And there[a] shall be a (C)priest on his throne, (D)and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.”’

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 6:13 Or he

18 And (A)I will make for them a covenant on that day with the beasts of the field, the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground. And (B)I will abolish[a] the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in (C)safety. 19 And I will betroth you to me (D)forever. (E)I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20 (F)I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And (G)you shall know the Lord.

21 “And (H)in that day (I)I will answer, declares the Lord,
    I will answer the heavens,
    and they shall answer the earth,
22 and the earth shall answer the grain, the wine, and the oil,
    and they shall answer (J)Jezreel,[b]
23     and (K)I will sow her for myself in the land.
And (L)I (M)will have mercy on No Mercy,[c]
    and (N)I will say to Not My People,[d] (O)‘You are my people’;
    and he shall say, ‘You are my God.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 2:18 Hebrew break
  2. Hosea 2:22 Jezreel means God will sow
  3. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ruhama
  4. Hosea 2:23 Hebrew Lo-ammi

The New Covenant

31 (A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make (B)a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when (C)I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, (D)though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 (E)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: (F)I will put my law within them, and I will write it (G)on their hearts. (H)And I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

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In his days Judah will be saved, and (A)Israel will (B)dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: (C)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

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Incline your ear, and come to me;
    (A)hear, that your soul may live;
(B)and I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
    (C)my steadfast, sure love for (D)David.

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