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For your husband is your Maker;
    the Lord of hosts is his name,
Your redeemer,[a] the Holy One of Israel,
    called God of all the earth.

The Lord calls you back,
    like a wife forsaken and grieved in spirit,
A wife married in youth and then cast off,
    says your God.(A)
For a brief moment I abandoned you,
    but with great tenderness I will take you back.
In an outburst of wrath, for a moment
    I hid my face from you;
But with enduring love I take pity on you,
    says the Lord, your redeemer.

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Footnotes

  1. 54:5 Redeemer: cf. note on 41:14.