Now (A)therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and (B)keep My covenant, then (C)you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is (D)Mine.

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Now if you obey me fully(A) and keep my covenant,(B) then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.(C) Although the whole earth(D) is mine,

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“Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord:

“I remember you,
The kindness of your (A)youth,
The love of your betrothal,
(B)When you [a]went after Me in the wilderness,
In a land not sown.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:2 followed

“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem:

“This is what the Lord says:

“‘I remember the devotion of your youth,(A)
    how as a bride you loved me
and followed me through the wilderness,(B)
    through a land not sown.

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“Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “On the day when (A)I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself (B)known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in an oath to them, saying, (C)‘I am the Lord your God.’

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and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On the day I chose(A) Israel, I swore with uplifted hand(B) to the descendants of Jacob and revealed myself to them in Egypt. With uplifted hand I said to them, “I am the Lord your God.(C)

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19 “I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me
In righteousness and justice,
In lovingkindness and mercy;

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19 I will betroth(A) you to me forever;
    I will betroth you in[a] righteousness and justice,(B)
    in[b] love and compassion.(C)

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  1. Hosea 2:19 Or with
  2. Hosea 2:19 Or with

20 I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness,
And (A)you shall know the Lord.

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20 I will betroth you in[a] faithfulness,
    and you will acknowledge(A) the Lord.(B)

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  1. Hosea 2:20 Or with