Jer 2:2, Eze 23:3, Hos 2:15, 11:1 | ESV | STEP | Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem , Thus says the Lord , I remember the devotion of your youth , your love as a bride , how you followed me in the wilderness , in a land not sown .

Jeremiah 2:2

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

“I remember the devotion of ^ayour youth,
your love ^bas a bride,
^chow you followed me in the wilderness,
^din a land not sown.

Ezekiel 23:3

3 ^eThey played the whore in Egypt; ^fthey played the whore ^gin their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms ^{▼▼Hebrew nipples; also verses 8, 21} handled.

Hosea 2:15

15 And there I will give her her vineyards
and make the Valley of Achor ^{▼▼ Achor means trouble; compare Joshua 7:26} a door of hope.
And there she shall answer ^jas in the days of her youth,
as at the time when she came out of the land of Egypt.

Hosea 11:1

The Lord’s Love for Israel

1 ^kWhen Israel was a child, ^lI loved him,
and out of Egypt I ^mcalled ⁿmy son.