4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
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I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-7)We have here an answer of peace to the prayers of returning Israel. They seek God’s face, and they shall not seek in vain . God will be sure to meet those in a way of mercy who return to him in a way of duty. If we speak to God in good prayers, God will speak to us in good promises, as he answered the angel with good words and comfortable words , Zech. 1:13. If we take with us the foregoing words…
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