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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)

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  1. 2:2 Devotion: Heb. hesed; Israel’s gratitude, fidelity, and love for God.

“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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18 (A)He willed to give us birth by the word of truth that we may be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.[a]

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  1. 1:18 Acceptance of the gospel message, the word of truth, constitutes new birth (Jn 3:5–6) and makes the recipient the firstfruits (i.e., the cultic offering of the earliest grains, symbolizing the beginning of an abundant harvest) of a new creation; cf. 1 Cor 15:20; Rom 8:23.

18 He chose to give us birth(A) through the word of truth,(B) that we might be a kind of firstfruits(C) of all he created.

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