1If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
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Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.
They said, Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)When God called to backsliding Israel to return (Jer. 3:22) they immediately answered, Lord, we return ; now God here takes notice of their answer, and, by way of reply to it, I. He directs them how to pursue their good resolutions: “Dost thou say, I will return ?” 1. “Then thou must return unto me ; make a thorough work of it. Do not only turn from thy idolatries, but return to the instituted wor…
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