A repentance so thorough as this cannot but result in the most clear and steadfast manner of life. Truly it is a returning not by oneself, but _a returning by God_, and it leads to the _keeping of leal love and justice, and waiting upon God continually_.[767]
[723] See above, p. 320.
[724] vii. 16, _They turn, but not upwards_; xiv. 5, _Mine anger is turned away_.
[725] ii. 9.
[726] viii. 13; ix. 3; xi. 5.
[727] iv. 9: cf. xii. 3, 15.
[728] xi. 9: cf. ii. 11.
[729] This may be further seen in the very common phrase שבות שוב עמי, _to turn again_ the captivity of My people (see Hosea vi. 11); or in the use of שוב in xiv. 8, where it has the force, auxiliary to the other verb in the clause, of repeating or coming back to do a thing. But the text here needs emendation: cf. above, p. 315. Cf. Amos' use of the Hiphil form to _draw back_, _withdraw_, i. 3, 6, 9, 11, 13; ii. 1, 4, 6.
[730] Cf. xi. 5, _they refused to return_.
[731] vi. 1, _Come and let us return to Jehovah_; vii. 10, _They did not return to Jehovah_; xiv. 2, 3, _Return, O Israel, to Jehovah_.
[732] iii. 5, _They shall return and seek Jehovah their God_; v. 4, _Their deeds do not allow them to return to their God_.
[733] v. 12, etc.
[734] iv. 2 ff.; vi. 7 ff., etc.
[735] vii. 7.
[736] ix. 11 ff.
[737] xii. 2.
[738] vii. 7.
[739] v. 5; vii. 10.
[740] See above, p. 261.
[741] vii. 16.
[742] x. 5.
[743] vii. 10.
[744] ii. 16, etc.; ix. 2 ff., etc.
[745] ix. 4.
[746] xii. 10.
[747] iv. 6, 8, 9, 10, 11.
[748] ix. 1. See above, p. 279.
[749] See above, p. 279, _n._ 4.
[750] v. 26.
[751] עֵצֶב from עָצַב, which in Job x. 8 is parallel to עשה.
[752] ii. 8.
[753] viii. 4.
[754] viii. 5.
[755] x. 5.
[756] xiii. 2.
[757] Isa. xli. ff.
[758] iv. 17.
[759] Amos v.
[760] vi. 6.
[761] xiv. 2. Perhaps the curious expression at the close of the verse, _so will we render the calves of our lips_, or (as a variant reading gives) _fruit of our lips_, has the same intention. Articulate confession (or vows), these are the sacrifices, _the calves_, which are acceptable to God.
[762] vi. 1-4.
[763] For the reasons for this interpretation see above, pp. 263 ff.
[764] x. 11.
[765] See above, p. 288.
[766] x. 12.
[767] xii. 7.