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# Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem
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"Go and speak where the people in Jerusalem can hear you"
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# I have called to mind on your behalf
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"I remember about you"
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# the covenant faithfulness of your youth, your love
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The abstract nouns "faithfulness," "youth" and "love" can be expressed with the adjectives "faithful" and "young," and the verb "love." Alternate translation: "how, when you were young, you were faithful to our covenant, and how you loved me" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-abstractnouns]])
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# when we were engaged
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God speaks of his relationship with the people of Israel as though they had been engaged to be married. Alternate translation: "when we first agreed that we would marry each other" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# the land that was not sown
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This can be expressed in active form. Alternate translation: "the land where no one had sown seed" or "the land where no food was growing" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
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