'Beloved' in the Bible

The Lord says to the people of Judah, "What right do you have to be in my temple, my beloved people? Many of you have done wicked things. Can your acts of treachery be so easily canceled by sacred offerings that you take joy in doing evil even while you make them?

"I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.