5 And now if YOU will strictly obey*+ my voice and will indeed keep my covenant,+ then YOU will certainly become* my special property out of all [other] peoples,+ because the whole earth belongs to me.+

31 For Jehovah your God is a merciful God.+ He will not desert you or bring you to ruin or forget the covenant+ of your forefathers that he swore to them.

2 “Go,* and you must call out in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘This is what Jehovah has said:+ “I well remember, on your* part, the loving-kindness* of your youth,+ the love during your being engaged to marry,+ your walking after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown with seed.+