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“The Lord has called you as if you were
a wife who was abandoned and in grief,
a wife who married young and was rejected,” says your God.

“I abandoned you for one brief moment,
but I will bring you back with unlimited compassion.
I hid my face from you for a moment in a burst of anger,
but I will have compassion on you with everlasting kindness,”
says the Lord your defender.

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For the Lord hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.

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