hSee Deut. 24:1-4
Isaiah 54:5
5 aFor your Maker is your husband,the Lord of hosts is his name;
band the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer,
cthe God of the whole earth he is called.
Jeremiah 2:2
2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,“I remember the devotion of dyour youth,
your love eas a bride,
fhow you followed me in the wilderness,
gin a land not sown.
Jeremiah 3:1
1 h“If ▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
a man divorces his wifeand she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
jWould not that land be greatly polluted?
kYou have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 3:8
8She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, lI had sent her away with ma decree of divorce. nYet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went oand played the whore.Jeremiah 31:32
32not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when pI took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, qthough I was their husband, declares the Lord.Hosea 2:19-20
19And I will betroth you to me rforever. sI will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy. 20 tI will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And uyou shall know the Lord.
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