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Jer_3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.
Ver. 22. Return, ye backsliding children.] Give the whole turn, and not the half turn only. So Act_2:38, Peter said to them that were already pricked at heart, "Repent ye," even to a transmentation; and Jer_3:19, "Repent ye, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out." Repent not only for sin, but from sin too; be thorough in your repentance; let it be such as shall never be repented of. {2Co_7:10} It is not a slight sorrow that will serve apostates’ turn; it must be deep and downright.
And I will heal your backslidings.] Pardon your sins, and heal your natures. "I will love you freely," and cause your broken bones to rejoice. {Hos_14:4 Isa_19:22} Oh sweetest promise! What wonder, then, that their hard hearts were forthwith melted by it into such a gracious compliance as followeth.
Behold, we come to thee.] See Zec_13:9. {See Trapp on "Zec_13:9"}