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31 as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.”

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Surely, the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned[a] about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the Lord, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.(A)

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  1. 2:7 Concerned: lit., “known”; cf. Ex 2:25.

15 he guided you through the vast and terrible wilderness with its saraph[a] serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; he brought forth water for you from the flinty rock(A)

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  1. 8:15 Saraph: see note on Nm 21:6.

[a]Keep me as the apple of your eye;
    hide me in the shadow of your wings

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  1. 17:8 Apple of your eye…shadow of your wings: images of God’s special care, cf. Dt 32:10; Prv 7:2; Is 49:2.

Keep my commands and live,[a]
    and my teaching as the apple of your eye;

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  1. 7:2 Live: here as elsewhere (Gn 20:7; 42:18; 2 Kgs 18:32; Jer 27:12, 17; Ez 18:32), the imperative (“Live!”) is uttered against the danger of death, e.g., “Do such and such and you will live (= survive the danger); why should you die?”

Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear!

I remember the devotion[a] of your youth,
    how you loved me as a bride,
Following me in the wilderness,
    in a land unsown.(A)
Israel was dedicated to the Lord,
    the first fruits[b] of his harvest;
All who ate of it were held guilty,
    evil befell them—oracle of the Lord.(B)

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  1. 2:2 Devotion: Heb. hesed; Israel’s gratitude, fidelity, and love for God.
  2. 2:3 First fruits: the first yield of a harvest offered as a sign of dependence on and gratitude toward the Lord of the land, thus divine property. Israel, then, is a gift made to God, set apart for his use; cf. Ex 23:19.

They did not ask, “Where is the Lord
    who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
    through a land of wastes and ravines,
A land of drought and darkness,
    a land which no one crosses,
    where no one dwells?”(A)

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15 I will punish her for the days of the Baals,[a]
    for whom she burnt incense,
When she decked herself out with her rings and her jewelry,
    and went after her lovers—
    but me she forgot—oracle of the Lord.(A)

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  1. 2:15 The days of the Baals: feast days of the Baal cult (v. 13), or the whole period of Israel’s apostasy.

I fed you in the wilderness,
    in the parched land.
When I fed them, they were satisfied;
    when satisfied, they became proud,
    therefore they forgot me.

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12 For thus says the Lord of hosts after the Lord’s glory had sent me, concerning the nations that have plundered you: Whoever strikes you strikes me directly in the eye.(A)

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