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Zephaniah 3:17
The LORD your God is among you, a warrior who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness. He will be quiet in his love. He will delight in you with singing.”
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Jeremiah 32:41
I will take delight in them to do what is good for them, and with all my heart and mind I will faithfully plant them in this land.
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Hosea 2:19-20
I will take you to be my wife forever. I will take you to be my wife in righteousness, justice, love, and compassion.I will take you to be my wife in faithfulness, and you will know the LORD.
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Isaiah 54:5-7
Indeed, your husband is your Maker— his name is the LORD of Armies— and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; he is called the God of the whole earth.For the LORD has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, a wife of one’s youth when she is rejected,” says your God.“ I deserted you for a brief moment, but I will take you back with abundant compassion.
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Isaiah 54:1
“ Rejoice, childless one, who did not give birth; burst into song and shout, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD.
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Isaiah 62:12
And they will be called the Holy People, the LORD’s Redeemed; and you will be called Cared For, A City Not Deserted.
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Psalms 149:4
For the LORD takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation.
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Ephesians 5:25-27
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for herto make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.He did this to present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and blameless.
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Isaiah 60:15
Instead of your being deserted and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an object of eternal pride, a joy from age to age.
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1 Peter 2 10
Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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Isaiah 32:14-15
For the palace will be deserted, the busy city abandoned. The hill and the watchtower will become barren places forever, the joy of wild donkeys, and a pasture for flocks,until the Spirit from on high is poured out on us. Then the desert will become an orchard, and the orchard will seem like a forest.
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Isaiah 61:10
I rejoice greatly in the LORD, I exult in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a groom wears a turban and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
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Jeremiah 3:14
“‘ Return, you faithless children— this is the LORD’s declaration— for I am your master, and I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
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Isaiah 49:14
Zion says,“ The LORD has abandoned me; the Lord has forgotten me!”
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Revelation 21:2
I also saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.
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Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a groom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
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2 Corinthians 11 2
For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband— to present a pure virgin to Christ.
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Revelation 21:9-10
Then one of the seven angels, who had held the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues, came and spoke with me:“ Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”He then carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
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John 3:29
He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.
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Romans 9:25-27
As it also says in Hosea, I will call Not My People, My People, and she who is Unloved, Beloved.And it will be in the place where they were told, you are not my people, there they will be called sons of the living God.But Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, Though the number of Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved;
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Hebrews 13:5
Keep your life free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for he himself has said, I will never leave you or abandon you.
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Hosea 1:9-10
Then the LORD said: Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not my people, and I will not be your God.Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And in the place where they were told: You are not my people, they will be called: Sons of the living God.