2 “Go,* and you must call out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘This is what Jehovah has said:+ “I well remember, on your* part, the loving-kindness* of your youth,+ the love during your being engaged to marry,+ your walking after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown with seed.+

3 that I may not strip her naked+ and actually place her as in the day of her being born,+ and actually set her like a wilderness+ and place her like a waterless land+ and put her to death with thirst.+

11 “When Israel was a boy,* then I loved him,+ and out of Egypt I called my son.+