For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beu
Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeti
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
“Say of your brothers, ‘My people,’ and of your sisters, ‘My loved one.’
“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My
Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you h
yet now I rejoice, not because you were made sorrowful, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you felt the
Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,