Jeremiah 4:1

If thou wilt return, etc.] The best rendering is perhaps as follows: If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, yea, return unto me, continuing (with mg.), and if thou wilt put … and wilt not wander, and wilt swear … then shall the nations, etc.

abominations detestable things, idolatrous worship, mingled, as it often was, with impure rites.

be removed wander (from God). By a change of one Hebrew letter we get the word rendered "broken loose" in Jeremiah 2:31. This is to be preferred, as it is doubtful whether the verb in MT. can have a moral connotation.