25 As for all the hills(A) once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns;(B) they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.(C)

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25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

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In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth.(A) And all will be desolation.

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In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

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13 Thorns(A) will overrun her citadels,
    nettles and brambles her strongholds.(B)
She will become a haunt for jackals,(C)
    a home for owls.(D)

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13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.

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13 Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
    and instead of briers(A) the myrtle(B) will grow.
This will be for the Lord’s renown,(C)
    for an everlasting sign,
    that will endure forever.”

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13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

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