“I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt. You have known no god besides me. There is no savior except me.
Did the gods of those countries rescue them from my control? Could the Lord then rescue Jerusalem from my control?”
I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. Egypt is the ransom I exchanged for you. Sudan and Seba are the price I paid for you.
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and I called my son out of Egypt.
I spoke to the prophets and gave them many visions. I taught lessons through the prophets.”
I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt. I will make you live in tents again as you did during your appointed festivals.
I will give her vineyards there. I will make the valley of Achor [Disaster] a door of hope. Then she will respond as she did when she was young, as she did when she came out of Egypt.
I will be true to you, my wife. Then you will know the Lord.
Then the Lord spoke to the fish, and it spit Jonah out onto the shore.
No one else can save us. Indeed, we can be saved only by the power of the one named Jesus and not by any other person.”