O Israel, return—now, completely—to the Lord your God. The heavy and scarcely interrupted tide of denunciation is now past. Billow upon bill…

Thy. —Tenderness and inextinguishable love are suggested by the use of the pronoun. “Repentance (say the Rabbis) presses right up …

O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God;

Bless his name that he is still your God. However much you may have backslidden, you have n…

Here the Prophet exhorts the Israelites to repentance and still sets forth some hope of mercy. This may seem inconsistent, as he had already testif…

O Israel, return unto the Lord your God
From whom they had revolted and backslidden; whose worship and service they …

Israel is exhorted to return to Jehovah, from their sins and idols, by faith in His mercy and grace through the promised Redeemer, and by diligentl…