Isaiah 62:4
You will no longer be called Deserted, and your land will no longer be called Destroyed. You will be named My Delight. Your land will be named Married (owned as a wife). Jehovah is delighted with you, and your land will be married.
Jeremiah 32:41
I will enjoy blessing them. With all my heart and all my being I will faithfully plant them in this land.'
Zephaniah 3:17
Jehovah your God is with you! He is a mighty one. He will exult over you with joy. He will refresh you with his love. He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy.
Isaiah 49:14
Zion replied: Jehovah has forsaken me and Jehovah has forgotten me!
Isaiah 54:1
Sing joyfully, O barren woman, you who never bore a child! Burst into song and shout for joy, you who were never in labor! More are the children of the desolate woman than of the woman, who has a husband, proclaims Jehovah.
Jeremiah 3:14
Return, you disobedient people, proclaims Jehovah. I am your husband. I will take you, one from every city and two from every family, and bring you to Zion.'
Hosea 2:19-20
I will engage you to me for a very long time! Yes I will engage you to me in righteousness, and in justice, and in loving kindness, and in mercies.
1 Peter 2:10
In time past you were no people, but now you are the people of God. You had not then received, but now have received mercy (compassion) (divine kindness).
Psalm 149:4
Jehovah takes pleasure in his people. He crowns (beautifies) those who are oppressed with salvation.
Isaiah 32:14-15
Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken. Hill and watchtower have become caves forever. They will be a delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks.
Isaiah 54:5-7
For your Maker is your husband. Jehovah of Hosts is his name! The Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer. He is called the God of all the earth.
Isaiah 60:15
You have been abandoned and hated. No one has passed through you. But now I will make you a foundation of everlasting pride, a joy for all generations.
Isaiah 61:10
I will rejoice greatly in Jehovah. I will exult in my God for he has clothed me with garments of salvation. He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isaiah 62:5
Your sons will marry you like a young man marries a woman. Your God will rejoice over the same way a bridegroom rejoices over his bride.
Isaiah 62:12
They will be called the holy people reclaimed (repurchased) by Jehovah! You will be called searched for, a City Not Deserted.
Hosea 1:9-10
Jehovah said: Name him Loammi for you are not my people, and I am not your God.
John 3:29
He that has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom stands and listens to him. He rejoices greatly because he hears the bridegroom's voice. This fills me with joy.
Romans 9:25-27
He says also in Hosea: Those who are not my people I will call my people. And she who is not loved I will call loved.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am zealous over you with a godly fervor (ardor) (zeal)! For I promised you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Ephesians 5:25-27
Husbands love your wives, even as Christ also loved the congregation and gave himself up for it.
Hebrews 13:5
You should be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have, for he has said: I will not leave you. I will not forsake you.
Revelation 21:2
Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Revelation 21:9-10
One of the seven angels came to me. He had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues. He said: Come here, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.