⁵ For your Maker^(A) is your husband^(B)—
    the Lord Almighty is his name—
the Holy One^(C) of Israel is your Redeemer;^(D)
    he is called the God of all the earth.^(E)
6 The Lord will call you back^(F)
    as if you were a wife deserted^(G) and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,^(H)
    only to be rejected,” says your God.
⁷ “For a brief moment^(I) I abandoned^(J) you,
    but with deep compassion^(K) I will bring you back.^(L)
8 In a surge of anger^(M)
    I hid^(N) my face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness^(O)
    I will have compassion^(P) on you,”
    says the Lord your Redeemer.^(Q)

“‘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.

3 “If a man divorces^(A) his wife
    and she leaves him and marries another man,
should he return to her again?
    Would not the land be completely defiled?^(B)
But you have lived as a prostitute with many lovers^(C)—
    would you now return to me?”^(D)
declares the Lord.