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Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
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A Divine Dialogue
Scholars highlight the verse's dramatic structure as a call and response. God first extends a gracious invitation, "Return... I will heal your backslidings." This is immediately followed by the people's heartfelt and repentant reply, "Behold, we are come unto thee." This poetic exchange paints a vivid picture of God's initiative in reconciliation and the ideal, immediate response of a repentant heart.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Yahweh’s answer to their prayer in (Jeremiah 3:21) is immediately followed by their acceptance of the offer of divine mercy.
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19th Century
Anglican
Return, you backsliding children ... —We lose, as before, the force of the Hebrew repetition of the same root, Turn, …
Baptist
And I said, Thou shalt call me, My father and shalt not turn away from me. Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have y…
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16th Century
Protestant
God here exhorts the Israelites to repent, so that by their example He might move the Jews. The benefit of what is taught here might indeed have re…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Return, you backsliding children This is the call of the Jews to repentance in the latter day; (See Gill on Jere…
Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. And forgetting the Lord our God is at the bottom of all sin. By sin we bring ourselves into trouble. The prom…
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13th Century
Catholic
