KJV King James Version
Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.
WEB World English Bible
Return, you backsliding children, I will heal your backsliding. “Behold, we have come to you; for you are Yahweh our God.
ASV American Standard Version
Return, ye backsliding children, I will heal your backslidings.Behold, we are come unto thee; for thou art Jehovah our God.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Turn back, O backsliding sons, I cause your backslidings to cease.—Behold us, we have come to Thee, For Thou art Jehovah our God.
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 3
19 But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.
20 Surely [as] a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the LORD.
21 A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping [and] supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, [and] they have forgotten the LORD their God.
22 Return, ye backsliding children, [and] I will heal your backslidings. Behold, we come unto thee; for thou [art] the LORD our God.
23 Truly in vain [is salvation hoped for] from the hills, [and from] the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God [is] the salvation of Israel.
24 For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.
25 We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.
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שׁ֚וּבוּH7725 · shuvto return: returnבָּנִ֣יםH1121 · benson: childשׁוֹבָבִ֔יםH7726 · sho.vavturning backאֶרְפָּ֖הH7495 · ra.pahto healמְשׁוּבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑םH4878 · me.shu.vahfaithlessnessהִנְנוּ֙H2005 · henlook!אָתָ֣נוּH857 · a.tahto comeלָ֔ךְH9032 · khyouכִּ֥יH3588 · kiforאַתָּ֖הH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)יְהֹוָ֥הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDאֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃H430 · e.lo.himGod
Cross-references
Hosea 14:4I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.Hosea 14:1O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.Zechariah 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It [is] my people: and they shall say, The LORD [is] my God.Hosea 6:1-2Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.Jeremiah 30:17For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, [saying], This [is] Zion, whom no man seeketh after.Hosea 3:5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.Hosea 13:4Yet I [am] the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for [there is] no saviour beside me.Song of Solomon 1:4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.Jeremiah 31:18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God.Hosea 14:8Ephraim [shall say], What have I to do any more with idols? I have heard [him], and observed him: I [am] like a green fir tree. From me is thy fruit found.Jeremiah 33:6Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.Isaiah 27:8In measure, when it shooteth forth, thou wilt debate with it: he stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
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