Exodus 19:4-6

4 a'You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how bI bore you on eagleswings and brought you to myself. 5Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be cmy treasured possession among all peoples, for dall the earth is mine; 6and you shall be to me a ekingdom of priests and fa holy nation'. These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

Deuteronomy 32:10

10 “He found him gin a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he hencircled him, he cared for him,
he ikept him as the apple of his eye.

Jeremiah 2:2-3

2Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,

“I remember the devotion of jyour youth,
your love kas a bride,
lhow you followed me in the wilderness,
min a land not sown.
3 nIsrael was holy to the Lord,
othe firstfruits of his harvest.
pAll who ate of it incurred guilt;
disaster came upon them,

declares the Lord.”

Jeremiah 31:2

2 Thus says the Lord:
“The people who survived the sword
found grace in the wilderness;
qwhen Israel sought for rest,

Hosea 11:1

The Lord’s Love for Israel

1 rWhen Israel was a child, sI loved him,
and out of Egypt I tcalled umy son.
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