53 For you singled them out from all the nations of the world to be your own inheritance,(A) just as you declared through your servant Moses when you, Sovereign Lord, brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

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15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
    and have no compassion on the child(A) she has borne?
Though she may forget,
    I will not forget you!(B)
16 See, I have engraved(C) you on the palms of my hands;
    your walls(D) are ever before me.

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“I will forsake(A) my house,
    abandon(B) my inheritance;
I will give the one I love(C)
    into the hands of her enemies.(D)

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The Lord appeared to us in the past,[a] saying:

“I have loved(A) you with an everlasting love;
    I have drawn(B) you with unfailing kindness.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:3 Or Lord has appeared to us from afar

For this is what the Lord Almighty says: “After the Glorious One has sent me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of his eye(A)

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This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I am very jealous(A) for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.”

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16 The Lord their God will save his people on that day(A)
    as a shepherd saves his flock.
They will sparkle in his land
    like jewels in a crown.(B)

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