And on that day I will break the bow of Israel in the Valley of Jezreel.”

And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint for themselves one head. And they shall go up from the land, for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

lest I strip her naked and make her as in the day she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and make her like a parched land, and kill her with thirst.

“And in that day, declares the Lord, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’

And 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 I will abolish the bow, the sword, and war from the land, and I will make you lie down in safety.

“And in that day I will answer, declares the Lord, I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,

You shall stumble by day; the prophet also shall stumble with you by night; and I will destroy your mother.

Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I make known what is sure.

After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.

On the day of our king, the princes became sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

What will you do on the day of the appointed festival, and on the day of the feast of the Lord?

therefore the tumult of war shall arise among your people, and all your fortresses shall be destroyed, as Shalman destroyed Beth-arbel on the day of battle; mothers were dashed in pieces with their children.

Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.