Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 30:17

"For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after." — Jeremiah 30:17 (ASV)

I will restore health to you ... —Literally, I will place a healing plaster on you. The image of the plague-stricken sufferer is resumed from Jeremiah 30:13.

Men had scorned her. The contemptuous term of outcast had been flung at her. She was like Tyre, as a harlot that had been forgotten (Isaiah 23:16). There were none who sought her company. No nation courted her alliance.

It was as though that extreme misery had touched the heart of Jehovah with pity, even for the adulteress who had forsaken Him. The whole passage brings the history, or the parable, of Gomer very vividly to our memory (Hosea 1-3).