...Job, and have seen the end of the Lord: that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. JER. 2: 2. Thus saith the LORD, I remember thee ; the kindness...me in the wilderness: in a land that was not sown. Israel was holiness to the LORD. — 5. What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are...

...calls, " thy first love ;" " the love of thine espousals." He says of it, with touching tenderness, " I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown." Israel was (then) Holiness unto the Lord, Jer. ii. 2. You, too, remember this ! Perhaps, you have occasion...

...characteristically, from the Bible: I remember for thee the affection of thy youth, The love of thine espousals; How thou wentest after me in the wilderness, In a land that was not sown. Eddie Cantor Born on the Lower East Side of New York, Eddie Cantor became America's leading comedian...

...2 MOREOVER THE word of the LORD came to me. saying. 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying. ong LORD like unto thee? or to Ihy failhfulness round...thereof arise, thou stillest Ihem. 10 Thou hast br 3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, ¡ííií/the Israel's faithlessness firslfruits of his increase:...

..."That is ever best with the servants of God and churches of Christ when they keep closest to God." "I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...wilderness, in a land that was not sown" (Jeremiah 2.2). Did they lose anything? No. See verse 3: "Israel was holiness unto the Lord and the firstfruits...

...remember concerning you the kindness of your youth, / The love of your bridal days, / When you followed after Me in the wilderness, / In a land that was not sown" (2:2). There was a bridal day, a wedding day, for Jehovah and Israel, and Jehovah, the Husband, still...

...2.2 f.): "I remember for you the affection of your youth, the love of your bridal time; how you went after Me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. Israel is HIS holy portion, His first- fruit of the harvest; all who devour him shall be held guilty....

...Thus saith Jehovah, I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals; how thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown" (ASV). In the Bible the honeymoon love is called the bridal love. Jehovah was married to Israel and...

...dwelling only in tents, not houses.38 The resultant ambivalence towards wilderness is clear in Jeremiah: Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness...me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown . . . Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the Land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness,...

...wilderness he led him about ; he instructed him, he kept him as the Apple of his Eye. "Jerem. 2. 2, 3. I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love...me in the wilderness, in a Land that was not sown, &c. "Deut. 8. 2, 1 6. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee this Forty...