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Later text
"Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly. There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
Earlier text
Jeremiah 2:2BSB
"Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: 'I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Hosea 2:14-15 promises a future wilderness courtship where Israel will "respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt," while Jeremiah 2:2 recalls that same era: "the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown." Both prophets idealize the post-Exodus wilderness period as Israel's time of pure, undivided devotion — before Canaan's fertility cults seduced her away. The shared phrase אַהֲבַת כְּלוּלֹתַיִךְ (ahavat kelulotayikh, "your bridal love") in Jeremiah and Hosea's imagery of renewed courtship show that the wilderness-as-wedding motif was a recognized prophetic tradition for diagnosing Israel's apostasy as marital unfaithfulness and envisioning restoration as a second honeymoon. Jeremiah's phrase also pairs this bridal love with חֶסֶד נְעוּרַיִךְ (chesed ne'urayikh, "the devotion of your youth"), doubling the covenant term for the same undivided-devotion motif.