the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Jeremiah 3:22
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Return, you faithless children.I will heal your unfaithfulness.“Here we are, coming to you,for you are the Lord our God.
Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are the LORD our God.
Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the Lord our God.
"Return, O faithless sons; I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
"Return, you faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to You; For You are the LORD our God.
"Come back to me, you unfaithful children, and I will forgive you for being unfaithful." "Yes, we will come to you, because you are the Lord our God.
"Return, O faithless sons," [says the LORD], "I will heal your unfaithfulness." [They answer] "Behold, we come to You, For You are the LORD our God.
Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. Behold, we are come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
O yee disobedient children, returne and I wil heale your rebellions. Behold, we come vnto thee, for thou art the Lord our God.
"Return, O faithless sons;I will heal your faithlessness.""Behold, we come to You,For You are Yahweh our God.
"Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness." "Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
I will tell them, "Come back, and I will cure you of your unfaithfulness." They will answer, "We will come back, because you are the Lord our God.
"Return, backsliding children, and I will heal your backsliding." "Here we are, we are coming to you, for you are Adonai our God.
—Return, backsliding children; I will heal your backslidings. … Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.
"People of Israel, you are unfaithful to me, but come back to me. Come back and I will forgive you for being unfaithful. "Just say, ‘Yes, we will come back, because you are the Lord our God.
Repent, O you backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings; and say, Behold, we are yours; for thou art the LORD our God.
Return, all of you who have turned away from the Lord ; he will heal you and make you faithful. You say, "Yes, we are coming to the Lord because he is our God.
Return, O apostate children, I will heal your backsliding. ‘Look, we come to you, for you are Yahweh our God.
Return, O apostate sons; I will heal your apostasies. Behold, we come to You, for You are Jehovah our God.
O ye shrenkinge children, turne agayne, (saynge: lo, we are thine, for thou art the LORDE oure God:) And so shal I heale youre bacturnynges.
Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.
Come back, you children who have been turned away, and I will take away your desire for wandering. See, we have come to you, for you are the Lord our God.
Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings.--'Here we are, we are come unto Thee; for Thou art the LORD our God.
Returne ye backsliding children, and I wil heale your backslidings: Beholde, wee come vnto thee, for thou art the Lord our God.
O ye disobedient children, turne againe, & so shall I heale your backturnynges. Lo we come vnto thee, for thou art the Lorde our God.
Turn, ye children that are given to turning, and I will heal your bruises.
Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings, Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Be ye conuertid, sones, turnynge ayen, and Y schal heele youre turnyngis awei. Lo! we comen to thee; for thou art oure Lord God.
Return, you backsliding sons, I will heal your backslidings. Look, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come to thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.
Come back to me, you wayward people. I want to cure your waywardness. Say, ‘Here we are. We come to you because you are the Lord our God.
"Return, you backsliding children, And I will heal your backslidings." "Indeed we do come to You, For You are the LORD our God.
"My wayward children," says the Lord , "come back to me, and I will heal your wayward hearts." "Yes, we're coming," the people reply, "for you are the Lord our God.
"Return, O sons who are not faithful. I will heal you and make you faithful." "See, we come to You, for You are the Lord our God.
Return, O faithless children, I will heal your faithlessness. "Here we come to you; for you are the Lord our God.
Return ye apostate sons, I will heal your apostasies! Behold us! we have come unto thee, For thou, art Yahweh our God.
Return, you rebellious children, and I will heal your rebellions. Behold we come to thee: for thou art the Lord our God.
"Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to thee; for thou art the LORD our God.
Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease. -- Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou [art] Jehovah our God.
"Return, O faithless sons, I will heal your faithlessness." "Behold, we come to You; For You are the LORD our God.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Return: Hosea 6:1, Hosea 14:1, Hosea 14:4
we: Jeremiah 31:18, Isaiah 27:8, Song of Solomon 1:4, Hosea 3:5, Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:2, Hosea 13:4, Hosea 14:8, Zechariah 13:9
Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 7:2 - lamented Psalms 80:19 - Turn us Song of Solomon 6:13 - return Isaiah 30:15 - in returning Isaiah 31:6 - Turn Isaiah 57:18 - will heal Jeremiah 3:1 - yet return Jeremiah 3:11 - The backsliding Jeremiah 3:12 - Return Jeremiah 4:1 - wilt return Jeremiah 8:4 - turn Jeremiah 18:11 - return Jeremiah 30:17 - For I Jeremiah 31:22 - backsliding Jeremiah 51:51 - are confounded Ezekiel 20:19 - the Lord Ezekiel 33:11 - turn ye Ezekiel 36:25 - from all your idols Hosea 2:7 - I will Zechariah 1:3 - Turn Malachi 3:7 - Return unto me Matthew 13:15 - and I John 12:40 - heal Romans 2:4 - goodness Hebrews 7:25 - come 1 Peter 2:4 - To
Cross-References
God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature So they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."
When the Woman saw that the tree looked like good eating and realized what she would get out of it—she'd know everything!—she took and ate the fruit and then gave some to her husband, and he ate.
Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on"—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.
The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it." God said to the Woman, "What is this that you've done?"
"The serpent seduced me," she said, "and I ate."
"Are your ears awake? Listen. Listen to the Wind Words, the Spirit blowing through the churches. I'm about to call each conqueror to dinner. I'm spreading a banquet of Tree-of-Life fruit, a supper plucked from God's orchard."
"How blessed are those who wash their robes! The Tree of Life is theirs for good, and they'll walk through the gates to the City. But outside for good are the filthy curs: sorcerers, fornicators, murderers, idolaters—all who love and live lies.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Return, ye backsliding children,.... This is the call of the Jews to repentance in the latter day; :-.
and I will heal your backslidings; that is, I will forgive your sins. Sins are the diseases of the soul, and the wounds made in it; and pardoning them is healing them. So the Targum,
"I will forgive you when ye return;''
see Psalms 103:3, this is done by the application of the blood of Christ, the only physician, and whose blood is the balm that heals every wound; and this springs from the love of God, and his free favour to his people, even the riches of his grace and abounding mercy through Christ; and is the great motive and inducement, and what gives the greatest encouragement to return unto the Lord, Hosea 14:1.
Behold, we come unto thee; the Targum represents this as what the Jews pretended always to say, and did say, in a hypocritical manner, with which they are upbraided,
"lo, at all times ye say, we return to thy worship, save us;''
and Jarchi is of opinion that these are words the prophet put into their mouths, and taught them to say, and to confess in this manner: but they are rather their own words, arising from a true sense of sin, under the influence of divine grace, and encouraged with the hope and assurance of pardon; declaring that as they were called upon to return, so they did return, and now were come to God by repentance, with confession and acknowledgment of sin, and by prayer and supplication for pardon and by the exercise of faith upon him for it; and also were come into his house to wait upon him, and worship him in his ordinances:
for thou art the Lord our God; not merely as the God of nature and providence, or in a natural way, but in a way of special grace, of which they now will have an application by the Spirit of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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 return to Yahweh. The whole description is most graphically conceived. The people weeping upon the hills: God’s gracious voice bidding them return: the glad cry of the penitents exclaiming that they come: the profession of faith won from them by the divine love; these form altogether a most touching picture of a national repentance.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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 to the end of the chapter, show the reasons why they return unto God.
1. Because he is the true God.
2. Because the idols did not profit them: they could give no help in time of trouble.
3. Because it is the prerogative of God alone to give salvation.
4. Because they had no kind of prosperity since they had abandoned the worship of their Maker. And this was not only their case, but it was the case of their forefathers, who all suffered in consequence of their idolatry and disobedience.
5. These reasons are concluded with a hearty confession of sin, at the thought of which they are confounded; for the remembrance of their sin was grievous to them, and the burden was intolerable. This confession ended, God appears in the next chapter with gracious promises, and proper directions how they are to return, and how to conduct themselves in future.
