Verse Jeremiah 3:22. _RETURN, YE BACKSLIDING CHILDREN_] This they gladly receive, and with one voice make their confession to him: "Behold, we come unto thee, for thou art Jehovah our God;" and thence...
Yahweh’s answer to their prayer in Jeremiah 3:21 is immediately followed by their acceptance of the offer of divine mercy. FOR - Rather, because ... This profession of faith gives the reason why they...
THE CALL TO REPENTANCE AND JUDGMENT ANNOUNCED (3:6-6:30) CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The contrast between backslidden Israel and treacherous Judah (Jeremiah 3:6) _ 2. The call to return and the promised glory ...
JEREMIAH 3:19 TO JEREMIAH 4:4. A DIALOGUE OF YAHWEH'S GRACE. This directly continues Jeremiah 3:5, the I of Jeremiah 3:19 being emphatically contras
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos_, to mark the confession that will be made "in those days"....
Jeremiah 3:6 to Jeremiah 4:4. Conditional offers of restoration We may subdivide thus. (1) Jeremiah 3:6-18. The ten tribes as less guilty than Judah are invited to repent and return. (2)...
Jeremiah 3:19 to Jeremiah 4:4. The invitation includes the whole nation, on a like condition This section should follow immediately on Jeremiah 3:5. See introd. note on...
God's reply to the lamentation and expressions of repentance. The Hebrew is striking in its play on the word _turn, Turn, ye turned_children; I will heal your _turnings_. Cp. Jeremiah 3:6; Hosea 14:4....
Vividly drawn picture of Judah's repentance. From the high places, the very scenes of her idolatrous excess, there comes a sound, at first of inarticulate weeping. In response to Jehovah's gracious in...
DISCOURSE: 1035 INVITATION TO BACKSLIDERS Jeremiah 3:22. _Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God_. THOUGH the con...
D. The Blessings of Repentance Jeremiah 3:15-22 a TRANSLATION (15) And I will give you shepherds according to My heart who shall feed you with knowledge and wisdom. (16) And it shall come to pass whe...
E. The Prayer of Repentance Jeremiah 3:22-25 TRANSLATION (22b) Here we are, we have come to you because you are the LORD our God. (23) Truly the hills are a swindle, the tumult of the mountains; Trul...
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. RETURN, YE BACKSLIDING CHILDREN - Yahweh's renewed invitation (; ) and...
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
JEREMIAH'S THIRD PROPHECY. THE FATE OF THE TEN TRIBES A WARNING TO JUDAH In this prophecy, as in the last, idolatry is denounced under the figure of unfaithfulness to the marriage vow. But as a marke...
RETURN, YE BACKSLIDING CHILDREN... — We lose, as before, the force of the Hebrew repetition of the same root, _Turn, ye children that have turned, I will heal your turnings._ As so often in Hebrew poe...
שׁ֚וּבוּ בָּנִ֣ים שֹׁובָבִ֔ים אֶרְפָּ֖ה מְשׁוּבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם הִנְנוּ֙...
CHAPTER III ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST Jeremiah 3:6; Jeremiah 4:1 THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and the darkness of its close was not relieved by a single ray o...
PLEADING WITH FAITHLESS CHILDREN Jeremiah 3:11-25; Jeremiah 4:1-2 The people of the northern kingdom, to whom this appeal is especially addressed, were more excusable than Judah, because their privil...
Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. (x) Behold, we come to thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God. (x) This is spoken in the person of Israel to the shame of Judah, w...
The Lord still causeth his grace to triumph over the unworthiness of his Israel, until at length, the heart is subdued and overcome. What a sweet and blessed conclusion is made to the subject, and to...
God here exhorts the Israelites to repent, that by their example he might move the Jews. The benefit of what is here taught might indeed have reached to the miserable captives and exiles; but as Jerem...
Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign goo...
RETURN, YE BACKSLIDING CHILDREN,.... This is the call of the Jews to repentance in the latter day; Jeremiah 3:14. AND I WILL HEAL YOUR BACKSLIDINGS; that is, I will forgive your sins. Sins are the di...
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...
Here begins a dialogue between God and his people, wherein he offers gracious terms of pardon to them, and they make sincere professions of obedience to him. _Return, ye backsliding_ Or _revolted, chi...
THE CALL TO RETURN...
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. And they, full, of eager desire, answer: BEHOLD, WE COME UNTO THEE; FOR THOU ART THE LORD, OUR GOD. Moreover, they now concede:...
21-25 Sin is turning aside to crooked ways. And forgetting the Lord our God is at the bottom of all sin. By sin we bring ourselves into trouble. The promise to those that return is, God will heal the...
RETURN, viz. repent for sin and from sin. Here God calls upon them, and invites them to consider whither they are going, and to hearken unto the voice of his ministers, HOSEA 14:1 ACTS 3:19. See JEREM...
Jeremiah 3:22 Return H7725 (H8798) backsliding H7726 children H1121 heal H7495 (H8799) backslidings H4878 come H857
Jeremiah 3:12. Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LO...
Let us read part of the 3 rd chapter of Jeremiah where God brings a solemn accusation against the two nations of Israel and Judah because they forsook the living God, and went after idols neglected hi...
In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one, but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah. Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
_Return. .. and I will heal your backslidings._ HOPE FOR THE WORST BACKSLIDERS I. The call from God. “Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings.” 1. It is a call to come ba...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5, although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the chapter...
EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1. ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
They say (Jeremiah 3:1), That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy. If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's wife, shall he return unto...
Hosea 13:4; Hosea 14:1; Hosea 14:4; Hosea 14:8; Hosea 3:5;...