Children ... married - The twofold relationship gives a double certainty of acceptance. As children, they were sure of a father’s l…

Turn, O backsliding children. — In his desire to individualize his call to repentance, the prophet drops his parable, or …

Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall…

Jeremiah repeats the same thing in other words; but God, by so many words, shows more clearly how ready he would be to grant pardon, provided the I…

Turn, O backsliding children, says the Lord
All of them were children by national adoption, and some by special grac…

See God's readiness to pardon sin, and the blessings reserved for gospel times. These words were proclaimed toward the north: to Israel, the ten tr…

Here, he calls them back from the punishment of captivity.