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And I will betrotht thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousnessv, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.

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Isa. 54:5• ⁵For thy Maker [is] thy husband: Jehovah of hosts [is] His name, and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. (Isa. 54:5)

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Eph. 5:23‑27• ²³for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly: he [is] the saviour of the body.
²⁴But as the assembly is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.
²⁵Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for it,
²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word,
²⁷that he might himself present to himself the assembly glorious, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it should be holy and blameless. (Eph. 5:23‑27)

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And I will.

Isa. 54:5• ⁵For thy Maker [is] thy husband: Jehovah of hosts [is] His name, and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he be called. (Isa. 54:5)

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Isa. 62:3‑5• ³Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
⁴Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
⁵For [as] a young man marrieth a virgin, shall thy sons marry thee; and with the joy of the bridegroom over the bride shall thy God rejoice over thee. (Isa. 62:3‑5)

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Jer. 3:14‑15• ¹⁴Turn, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah, for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:
¹⁵and I will give you pastors, according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. (Jer. 3:14‑15)

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John 3:29• ²⁹He that hath the bride is [the] bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom that standeth and heareth him rejoiceth with joy because of the voice of the bridegroom: this my joy then is fulfilled. (John 3:29)

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Rom. 7:4• ⁴So that, my brethren, ye also have been made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that ye should belong to another, him that was raised out of [the] dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. (Rom. 7:4)

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2 Cor. 11:2• ²For I am jealous as to you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present a chaste virgin to Christ. (2 Cor. 11:2)

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Eph. 5:25‑27• ²⁵Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for it,
²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word,
²⁷that he might himself present to himself the assembly glorious, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it should be holy and blameless. (Eph. 5:25‑27)

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Rev. 19:7‑9• ⁷Let us be glad and rejoice and give the glory to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
⁸And to her it was granted that she should be clothed with fine linen bright [and] pure: for the fine linen is the righteousnesses of the saints.
⁹And he saith to me, Write: Blessed {i}are{/i} those that are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me, These are the true words of God. (Rev. 19:7‑9)

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Rev. 21:2,9‑10• ²And the holy city, new Jerusalem, I saw coming down out of the heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
⁹And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
¹⁰And he carried me away in {i}the{/i} Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of the heaven from God, having the glory of God. (Rev. 21:2,9‑10)

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Isa. 54:8‑10• ⁸In overflowing wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith Jehovah thy Redeemer.
⁹For this [is as] the waters of Noah unto me; since I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will no more be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
¹⁰For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall my covenant of peace be removed, saith Jehovah that hath mercy on thee. (Isa. 54:8‑10)

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Jer. 31:31‑36• ³¹Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
³²not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith Jehovah{i}.
³³This shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith Jehovah, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
³⁴And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah: for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
³⁵Thus saith Jehovah, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar; Jehovah of hosts is his name:
³⁶If those ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. (Jer. 31:31‑36)

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Jer. 32:38‑41• ³⁸and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
³⁹and I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
⁴⁰and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.
⁴¹Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. (Jer. 32:38‑41)

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Ezek. 37:25‑28• ²⁵And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children, forever; and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
²⁶Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
²⁷My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
²⁸And the heathen shall know that I Jehovah do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. (Ezek. 37:25‑28)

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Ezek. 39:29• ²⁹Neither will I hide my face anymore from them: for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Ezek. 39:29)

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Joel 3:20• ²⁰But Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation. (Joel 3:20)

in righteousness.

Psa. 85:10• ¹⁰Mercy and truth are met together;{HR}Righteousness and peace have kissed. (Psa. 85:10)

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Isa. 45:23‑25• ²³I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth [in] righteousness, and shall not return, that unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
²⁴Only in Jehovah, shall [one] say, have I righteousness and strength: to him shall [men] come; and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
²⁵In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory. (Isa. 45:23‑25)

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Isa. 54:14• ¹⁴In righteousness shalt thou be established; thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. (Isa. 54:14)

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Jer. 4:2• ²{i}—and thou shalt in truth, in justice, and in righteousness swear, As Jehovah liveth! and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.{/i} (Jer. 4:2)

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Rom. 3:25‑26• ²⁵whom God set forth as a propitiatory through faith in his blood, for a declaration of his righteousness on account of the praeter-mission of the sins that had been before, in the forbearance of God,
²⁶with a view to the declaration of his righteousness in the present time, in order to his being just and justifying him that [is] of faith in Jesus. (Rom. 3:25‑26)

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Eph. 1:7‑8• ⁷in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace,
⁸which he caused to abound toward us in all wisdom and intelligence, (Eph. 1:7‑8)

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Eph. 5:23‑27• ²³for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ [is] head of the assembly: he [is] the saviour of the body.
²⁴But as the assembly is subject to the Christ, so also the wives to their own husbands in everything.
²⁵Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly and gave himself up for it,
²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word,
²⁷that he might himself present to himself the assembly glorious, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it should be holy and blameless. (Eph. 5:23‑27)

• {v.19-20} What is the worth of every other mercy compared with this nearest association with Jehovah Himself. (“Hosea 2” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; and I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgmentk, and in loving-kindnessl, and in mercies;

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Or "justice."

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Chesed, "piety," "goodness." chs. 4.1; 6.4,6; 10.12; 12.6; 2 Chron. 6.42.

W. Kelly Translation

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Yea, I will betroth thee to Myself in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness; and in mercies,