“Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:”
The explanation that the old covenant was broken 'though I was their husband' uses marital imagery to express God's loving commitment and Israel's infidelity. The acknowledgment of covenant failure is crucial; restoration does not deny judgment but proceeds from it.
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