Jeremiah 3:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou art the LORD our God. ”

Jeremiah 3:22 - Albert 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...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

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,...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 contrasted with the thou of Jeremiah 3:5 . Yahw...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos , to mark the confession that will be made "in those days".
Jeremiah 3:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 a...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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 t...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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 - This they gladly receive, and with...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 ( J...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER III ISRAEL AND JUDAH: A CONTRAST Jeremiah 3:6-25 ; Jeremiah 4:1-2 THE first address of our prophet was throughout of a sombre cast, and the darkness of its close was not relieved by a...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 thei...
Jeremiah 3:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Jeremiah 3:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
Jeremiah 3:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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, a...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, ch...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Israel Returning to God; Israel Encouraged in Their Return. B. C. 620. 20 Surely as...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 ....
Jeremiah 3:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 chapt...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Jeremiah 3:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Jeremiah 3:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 co...
Jeremiah 3:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1-24 . ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6 , and the years...
Jeremiah 3:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Call to Return
Jeremiah 3:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 13:4 ; Hosea 14:1 ; Hosea 14:4 ; Hosea 14:8 ; Hosea 3:5 ; Hosea 6:1 ; Hosea 6:2 ; Isaiah 27:8 ; Jeremiah 31:18 ; Song of Solomon 1:4 ; Zechariah 13:9

Jeremiah 3:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 3:22 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Jeremiah 3:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 3:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Jeremiah 3:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 3:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 3:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 3:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 3:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 3:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 3:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 3:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 3:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 3:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 3:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge