Jeremia 3:22

Lutherbibel

So kehret nun wieder, ihr abtrünnigen Kinder, so will ich euch heilen von eurem Ungehorsam. Siehe wir kommen zu dir; denn du bist der HERR, unser Gott.

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Kehret um, ihr abtrünnigen Kinder! Ich will eure Abweichungen heilen! - „Siehe, wir kommen zu dir, denn du bist der Herr, unser Gott.

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

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.