22 (A)How long will you waver,
    (B)O faithless daughter?
For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:
    a woman encircles a man.”

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I (A)will heal their apostasy;
    (B)I will love them freely,
    for my anger has turned from them.

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Why do you boast of your valleys,[a]
    (A)O faithless daughter,
(B)who trusted in her treasures, saying,
    ‘Who will come against me?’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 49:4 Hebrew boast of your valleys, your valley flows

22 (A)“Return, O faithless sons;
    (B)I will heal your faithlessness.”
“Behold, we come to you,
    for you are the Lord our God.

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Faithless Israel Called to Repentance

The Lord said to me in the days of (A)King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, (B)how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there (C)played the whore?

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23 (A)How can you say, ‘I am not unclean,
    I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way (B)in the valley;
    know what you have done—
a restless young camel running here and there,

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15 I will put enmity between you and the woman,
    and between your offspring[a] and (A)her offspring;
(B)he shall bruise your head,
    and you shall bruise his heel.”

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  1. Genesis 3:15 Hebrew seed; so throughout Genesis

27 I have seen (A)your abominations,
    your adulteries and (B)neighings, your lewd whorings,
    (C)on the hills in the field.
Woe to you, O Jerusalem!
    How long will it be (D)before you are made clean?”

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14 O Jerusalem, (A)wash your heart from evil,
    that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
    lodge within you?

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36 (A)How much you go about,
    changing your way!
You shall be (B)put to shame by Egypt
    as you were put to shame by Assyria.

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18 (A)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
    to drink the waters of (B)the Nile?
(C)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
    to drink the waters of (D)the Euphrates?[a]

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  1. Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River

14 Therefore the (A)Lord himself will give you a sign. (B)Behold, the (C)virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name (D)Immanuel.[a]

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  1. Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel means God is with us

30 But if the Lord creates something new, and (A)the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they (B)go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”

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But (A)when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, (B)born (C)of woman, born (D)under the law,

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34 And Mary said to the angel, “How will this be, since I am a virgin?”[a]

35 And the angel answered her, (A)“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of (B)the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born[b] will be called (C)holy—(D)the Son of God.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 1:34 Greek since I do not know a man
  2. Luke 1:35 Some manuscripts add of you

21 She will bear a son, and (A)you shall call his name Jesus, (B)for he will save his people from their sins.”

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11 But (A)they refused to pay attention (B)and turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear.[a]

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  1. Zechariah 7:11 Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear

My people are bent (A)on turning away from me,
    and though (B)they call out to the Most High,
    he shall not raise them up at all.

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(A)I have[a] spurned your calf, O Samaria.
    My anger burns against them.
(B)How long will they be incapable of innocence?

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  1. Hosea 8:5 Hebrew He has

16 Like a stubborn heifer,
    Israel is stubborn;
can the Lord now feed them
    like a lamb in a broad pasture?

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“Though our iniquities testify against us,
    act, O Lord, (A)for your name's sake;
(B)for our backslidings are many;
    (C)we have sinned against you.

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Sin and Treachery

“You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord:
(A)When men fall, do they not rise again?
    If one turns away, does he not return?
Why then has this people (B)turned away
    in perpetual (C)backsliding?
(D)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.
(E)I have paid attention and listened,
    but they have not spoken rightly;
no man relents of his evil,
    saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turns to his own course,
    (F)like a horse plunging headlong into battle.

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24 (A)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (B)but walked in their own counsels and (C)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (D)went backward and not forward.

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14 (A)Return, O faithless children,
declares the Lord;
    (B)for I am your master;
I will take you, one from a city and two from a family,
    and I will bring you to Zion.

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11 And the Lord said to me, (A)“Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward (B)the north, and say,

(C)“‘Return, faithless Israel,
declares the Lord.
I will not look on you in anger,
    for (D)I am merciful,
declares the Lord;
(E)I will not be angry forever.

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