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.

²⁵ And at the beginning of their dwelling there, they did not fear the Lord. Therefore the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

¹⁷ I will send famine and ^(A)wild beasts against you, ^(B)and they will rob you of your children. Pestilence and ^(C)blood shall pass through you, and I will bring the sword upon you. I am the Lord; I have spoken.”

^15 (A)“If I cause wild beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, ^(B)and it be made desolate, so that no one may pass through because of the beasts,