Jeremias 3:22-4:2 NVIPT

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:20-25

Here is, I. The charge God exhibits against Israel for their treacherous departures from him, Jer. 3:20. As an adulterous wife elopes from her husband, so have they gone a whoring from God. They were joined to God by a marriage-covenant, but they broke that covenant, they dealt treacherously with God, who had always dealt kindly and faithfully with them. Treacherous dealing with men like ourselves is bad enough, but to deal treacherously with God is to deal treasonably. II. Their conviction... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

Return, ye backsliding children ,.... This is the call of the Jews to repentance in the latter day; See Gill on Jeremiah 3:14 . 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 Psalm 103:3 , this is done by the application of the blood of Christ, the only physician, and whose blood is the balm that heals... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 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. Because he is the true God. Because the idols did not profit them: they could give no help in time of trouble. Because it is the prerogative of God alone to give salvation. Because they had no kind of prosperity since they had abandoned... read more

John Calvin

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

Verse 22 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 as Jeremiah was especially the teacher of his own nation, he labored chiefly no doubt for their advantage, as we have before stated. God then here declares, that he would be reconcilable to the Israelites, how grievously soever they had sinned, he afterwards introduces them as answering, Behold,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-25

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:21-25

Typical penitence. It is difficult if not impossible to fix any historic date for the fulfillment of this prophecy. Not a few competent scholars maintain that it is yet unfulfilled. But in any case it is a picture of the future, and may be accepted as a description of the penitence that is well-pleasing in the sight of God. All through it is spiritual, and the national circumstances involved are put thoroughly into the background. I. THE UPSPRINGING OF GODLY SORROW FOR SIN... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

Return, ye backsliding children , etc.; more literally, Turn, ye turned-away sons ; I will heal your turnings (as Hosea 14:4 ). It seems strange at first sight that this verso does not stand before Jeremiah 3:21 . But the truth is that Jeremiah 3:21 describes not so much the "conversion" of the Jews as their willingness to "convert", or "turn" to God. Christ must touch, or at least make his presence felt, in order that the sick man may be healed; a special call of God must be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

Invitation and response. I. THE INVITATION . 1. The object of the invitation. God calls on his people to return to him. Not simple reformation of morals, but the restoration of personal relations with God as the Father of his people is desired. 2. The condition of the invited. They are apostate children; i . e . As sinners, men have all lost a first estate of innocence, but have not lost, and can never lose, their filial relationship to God. Hence 3. The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

Backsliding Israel. "Backsliding" was the characteristic vice of the Jewish people throughout the whole course of their history. Their career was one of perpetual sinning and repenting, until the great apostasy, the final "falling away." And in this we see what is too often a truthful reflection of the individual life of men. The Jews were emphatically a representative people. Not merely does their recorded history represent the method of God's ways, but it illustrates the folly and... read more

Albert Barnes

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

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... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 3:20-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 3:22

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

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:1-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:21-25

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 3:22

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

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