22Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.
I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my 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. …
For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-25)Here is, I. The charge God exhibits against Israel for their treacherous departures from him, Jer. 3:20. As an adulterous wife elopes from her husband, so have they gone a whoring from God. They were joined to God by a marriage-covenant, but they broke that covenant, they dealt treacherously with God, who had always dealt kindly and faithfully with them. Treacherous dealing with men like ourselves…
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