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 not the half turn only. So Acts 2:38, Peter said to them that were already pricked at heart, "Repent ye," even to a transmentation; and Jeremiah 3:19, "Repent ye, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out." Repent not only for sin, but from sin too; be thorough in your repentance; let it be such as shall never be repented of. 2Co 7:10 It is not a slight sorrow that will serve apostates' turn; it must be deep and downright.
And I will heal your backslidings.] Pardon your sins, and heal your natures. "I will love you freely," and cause your broken bones to rejoice. Hos 14:4 Isa 19:22 Oh sweetest promise! What wonder, then, that their hard hearts were forthwith melted by it into such a gracious compliance as followeth.
Behold, we come to thee.] See Zechariah 13:9. See Trapp on " Zec 13:9 "