Jeremiah 3:14-15

“Come back to me, my wayward sons,” says the Lord, “for I am your true master. If you do, I will take one of you from each town and two of you from each family group, and I will bring you back to Zion.  I will give you leaders who will be faithful to me. They will lead you with knowledge and insight.

Through Jeremiah, God is calling Israel to repentance and pointing toward a future for them when He will give them shepherds after His own heart. God uses marital terminology to describe His relationship with Israel; Him as the husband and Israel as the bride. Similar terms are used in the New Testament to describe Christ's relationship with the church. John the Baptist testifies this way about Christ saying in John 3:28-30: "The bride belongs to the bridegroom. The friend who attends the bridegroom waits and listens for him, and is full of joy when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. That joy is mine, and it is now complete. He must become greater; I must become less." The call to repent comes from Jesus, and today we experience that same call to repent by grace through faith in Christ. He is our husband, and we are His bride.