^9 (A)Blessed be the Lord your God, who has delighted in you and set you on the throne of Israel! ^(B)Because the Lord loved Israel forever, he has made you king, ^(C)that you may execute justice and righteousness.”

³⁷ And because ^(A)he loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them^[a] and brought you out of Egypt ^(B)with his own presence, by his great power,

¹⁵ Yet ^(A)the Lord set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day.

⁷ It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, ⁸ but ^(A)it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping ^(B)the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Hosea Redeems His Wife

3 And the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Go again, love a woman who is loved by another man and is an adulteress, even as the Lord loves the children of Israel, though they turn to other gods and love cakes of raisins.”