Jeremiah 4:1

return. Note the Figure of speech Cycloides. App-6.

Israel. Now referring to the northern kingdom.

saith the LORD. [is] Jehovah's oracle.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.

then shalt thou not remove. and stray not [from Jehovah]. Compare Jeremiah 2:22-26; Jeremiah 3:2.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 4:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Return - The repentance of Israel described in Jeremiah 3:21-25 was a hope, and not a reality. The return, literally, would be their restoratio...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, (a) return to me: and if thou wilt put away thy abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not be r...
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 emphaticall...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

The Prophet no doubt requires here from the people a sincere return to God, inasmuch as they had often pretended to confess their sins, and had...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remo...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If thou wilt return—return unto me— If thou wilt return—thou shalt return. [ Thou shalt dwell with me. Houb.] If thou wilt remove thy idols, th...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

IV. (1) If thou wilt return. — The “if” implies a return from the hopes with which Jeremiah 3 ended to the language of misgiving, and so, infe...
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,...
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 addre...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jehovah immediately promised that if Israel would return, she would be established. Then the prophet declared that judgment was determined on. He app...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS This Chapter, in the opening, is an address to Israel. The subject then relates to Judah and Jerusalem. Both are to one and the same amount...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Is there not here a sweet breaking out, in pointing to Him who is the Lord our righteousness? For in whom are the nations to be blessed, but in Jesus...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord ,.... To which they had been encouraged, and as they had promised they would, and said they did, Jere...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remo...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If thou wilt return, O Israel, return unto me Israel having promised repentance in the latter part of the preceding chapter, they are here directed...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exhortation to Repentance. B. C. 620. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4 An invitation to true repentance, by promises, Jeremiah 4:1-4 ; and judgments coming on them by the Babylonians, contrary to...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Chronology of the chapter, Contemporary Scriptures, Historic Facts, Contemporary History as in chap. 3. 1. Geogra...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 4:1-2 . If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 4:3 . Break up your fallow ground. Hebrews ניר nir, novale; make new land, eradicate the thorns. Hosea 10:12 . Our old phrase, the f...
The Biblical Illustrator

If thou wilt return,.. .and if thou wilt put away thine abominations. .. then shalt thou not remove. The pleadings of God A strange ministry is...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Jeremiah 4:1 , Jeremiah 4:2 The form and structure of the translation require a change. Render, If thou wilt return , O I...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto Me, or, "if thou wilt return unto Me," the repetition serving to emphasize the anxious, me...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Last Call to Return
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 7:3 ; 2 Chronicles 15:8 ; 2 Chronicles 33:8 ; 2 Kings 23:13 ; 2 Kings 23:24 ; Deuteronomy 27:15 ; Ephesians 4:22-31 ; Ezekiel 11:18...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

If — If thou wilt return, return; make no longer delay. Remove — Thou shalt not go out of thine own land into exile.

¹ If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 4:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Jeremiah 4:1