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Jer. 2:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember βthee, the kindness of thy youthh, the love of thine espousals, wheni thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

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Hos. 2:15• ¹⁵{i}And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope;{/i} and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt (Hos. 2:15)

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Deut. 2:7• ⁷For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. (Deut. 2:7)

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cry.

Jer. 7:2• ²Stand in the gate of Jehovah's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship Jehovah. (Jer. 7:2)

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Jer. 11:6• ⁶Then Jehovah said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them. (Jer. 11:6)

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Jer. 19:2• ²{i}and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the pottery-gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,{/i} (Jer. 19:2)

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Prov. 1:20• ²⁰Wisdom crieth without,{HR}She raiseth her voice in the broadways; (Prov. 1:20)

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Prov. 8:1‑4• ¹Doth not wisdom cry,{HR}And understanding put forth her voice?
²On the top of high places by the way,{HR}Where paths meet, she standeth;
³Beside the gates, at the entry of the city,{HR}At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud.
⁴To you, O men, I call,{HR}And my voice [is] to the sons of man. (Prov. 8:1‑4)

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Isa. 58:1• ¹Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins. (Isa. 58:1)

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Hos. 8:1• ¹Set the trumpet to thy mouth. he shall come as an eagle against the house of Jehovah, {i}because they have transgressed my covenant, and rebelled against my law.{/i} (Hos. 8:1)

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Jonah 1:2• ²Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. (Jonah 1:2)

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Matt. 11:15• ¹⁵{i}He that has ears to hear, let him hear.{/i} (Matt. 11:15)

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Luke 12:13• ¹³{i}And a person said to him out of the crowd,{/i} Teacher, speak to my brother, to divide the inheritance with me. (Luke 12:13)

thee.

or, for thy sake.

the kindness.

Ex. 14:31• ³¹{i}And Israel saw the great power with which Jehovah had wrought against the Egyptians; and the people feared Jehovah, and believed in Jehovah, and in Moses his bondman.{/i} (Ex. 14:31)

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Ex. 15:1‑20• ¹{i}Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song to Jehovah, and spoke, saying{/i},{HR}I will sing unto Jehovah, for he hath triumphed gloriously:{HR}The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
²Jah is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation.{HR}{i}This is my God, and I will glorify him;{HR}My father's God, and I will extol him.{/i}
³{i}Jehovah is a man of war; Jehovah, his name.{HR}{/i}
⁴{i}Pharaoh's chariots and his army hath he cast into the sea;{HR}His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.{HR}{/i}
⁵{i}The depths covered them; they sank to the bottom as a stone.{HR}{/i}
⁶{i}Thy right hand, Jehovah, is become glorious in power:{HR}Thy right hand, Jehovah, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.{HR}{/i}
⁷{i}And by the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown thine adversaries:{HR}Thou sentest forth thy burning wrath, it consumed them as stubble.{HR}{/i}
⁸{i}And by the breath of thy nostrils the waters were heaped up;{HR}The streams stood as a mound;{HR}The depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.{HR}{/i}
⁹{i}The enemy said, I will pursue,{HR}I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;{HR}My soul shall be sated upon them;{HR}I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.{HR}{/i}
¹⁰{i}Thou didst blow with thy breath, the sea covered them;{HR}They sank as lead in the mighty waters.{HR}{/i}
¹¹{i}Who is like unto thee, Jehovah, among the gods?{HR}Who is like unto thee, glorifying thyself in holiness,{HR}Fearful in praises, doing wonders?{HR}{/i}
¹²{i}Thou stretchedst out thy right hand,{HR}The earth swallowed them.{HR}{/i}
¹³{i}Thou by thy mercy hast led forth the people that thou hast redeemed;{HR}Thou hast guided them by thy strength unto the abode of thy holiness.{HR}{/i}
¹⁴{i}The peoples heard it, they were afraid:{HR}A thrill seized the inhabitants of Philistia.{HR}{/i}
¹⁵{i}Then the princes of Edom were amazed;{HR}The mighty men of Moab, trembling hath seized them;{HR}All the inhabitants of Canaan melted away.{HR}{/i}
¹⁶{i}Fear and dread fall upon them;{HR}By the greatness of thine arm they are still as a stone;{HR}Till thy people pass over, Jehovah,{HR}Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.{HR}{/i}
¹⁷Thou shalt bring them in,{HR}And plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance,{HR}In the place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for Thee to dwell in,{HR}In the sanctuary, O Jehovah, which thy hands have established.
¹⁸Jehovah shall reign forever and ever.
¹⁹{i}For the horse of Pharaoh, with his chariots and with his horsemen, came into the sea, and Jehovah brought again the waters of the sea upon them; and the children of Israel went on dry ground through the midst of the sea.{/i}
²⁰{i}And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances.{/i} (Ex. 15:1‑20)

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Ezek. 16:8,22,60• ⁸{i}And I passed by thee, and looked upon thee, and behold, thy time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness; and I swore unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord Jehovah, and thou becamest mine.{/i}
²²{i}And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, when thou wast weltering in thy blood.{/i}
⁶⁰Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. (Ezek. 16:8,22,60)

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Ezek. 23:3,8,19• ³{i}And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.{/i}
⁸{i}Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.{/i}
¹⁹{i}Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;{/i} (Ezek. 23:3,8,19)

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Hos. 2:15• ¹⁵{i}And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope;{/i} and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt (Hos. 2:15)

thine espousals.

Ex. 24:3‑8• ³{i}And Moses came and told the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments; and all the people answered with one voice, and said,{/i} All the words which Jehovah hath said will we do.
⁴{i}And Moses wrote all the words of Jehovah, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.{/i}
⁵{i}And he sent the youths of the children of Israel, and they offered up burnt-offerings, and sacrificed sacrifices of peace-offering of bullocks to Jehovah.{/i}
⁶{i}And Moses took half the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.{/i}
⁷{i}And he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has said will we do, and obey!{/i}
⁸{i}And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words.{/i} (Ex. 24:3‑8)

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Song of Sol. 3:11• ¹¹Go forth, daughters of Zion,{HR}And behold king Solomon{HR}With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him{HR}In the day of his espousals,{HR}And in the day of the gladness of his heart. (Song of Sol. 3:11)

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Ex. 16:8• ⁸{i}And Moses said, When Jehovah gives you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for Jehovah hears your murmurings which ye murmur against him...and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against Jehovah.{/i} (Ex. 16:8)

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Jer. 2:6• ⁶{i}And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no man dwelleth?{/i} (Jer. 2:6)

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Deut. 2:7• ⁷For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. (Deut. 2:7)

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Deut. 8:2,15‑16• ²And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
¹⁵{i}who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, a wilderness of fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there is no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;{/i}
¹⁶{i}who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;{/i} (Deut. 8:2,15‑16)

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Neh. 9:12‑21• ¹²{i}And thou leddest them in the day by a pillar of cloud, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.{/i}
¹³{i}And thou camest down on mount Sinai, and didst speak with them from the heavens, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.{/i}
¹⁴{i}And thou madest known unto them thy holy Sabbath, and prescribedst for them commandments and statutes and a law, through Moses thy servant.{/i}
¹⁵{i}And thou gavest them bread from the heavens for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and didst say to them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.{/i}
¹⁶{i}But they, our fathers, dealt proudly, and hardened their neck, and hearkened not to thy commandments,{/i}
¹⁷{i}and refused to obey, neither were they mindful of thy wonders which thou hadst done among them; but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion made a captain to return to their bondage. But thou art a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great loving-kindness, and thou forsookest them not.{/i}
¹⁸{i}Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,{/i}
¹⁹{i}yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them on the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.{/i}
²⁰{i}Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.{/i}
²¹{i}Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.{/i} (Neh. 9:12‑21)

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Isa. 63:7‑14• ⁷I will record the loving-kindnesses of Jehovah, the praises of Jehovah, according to all that Jehovah hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.
⁸And he said, Surely they [are] my people, children [that] will not lie; and he became their Saviour.
⁹In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them and carried them all the days of old.
¹⁰But they rebelled and vexed his holy Spirit: and he turned to be their enemy; himself, he fought against them.
¹¹But he remembered the days of old, Moses [and] his people, [saying], Where [is] he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? where [is] he that put his holy Spirit in the midst of him,
¹²his glorious arm leading [them] by the hand of Moses, dividing the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name,
¹³who led them through the depths; as a horse in the wilderness [that] they stumbled not?
¹⁴As cattle go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah gave them rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a name of glory. (Isa. 63:7‑14)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

W. Kelly Translation

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Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)