I will heal their backsliding - God, in answer, promises to “heal” that wound of their souls, from where every other evil came, their fickle…

Heal ... Love. —If the foregoing is the offering of penitent lips, then the majestic reply of Jehovah is full of superlative grace…

For in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.<…

God here confirms what we have observed concerning his gratuitous reconciliation, nor is the repetition useless. For as people are disposed to ente…

I will heal their backslidings This and what follows is the Lord's answer to the above prayer; and this clause particular…

Israel seeks God's face, and they shall not seek it in vain. His anger is turned from them. Whom God loves, He loves freely—not because they deserv…