Jeremías 3:22

22 «Vuelvan a mí, hijos descarriados —dice el Señor
—,
y les sanaré el corazón extraviado».
«Sí, ya vamos —responde el pueblo—,
porque tú eres el Señor
nuestro Dios.

Jeremías 3:22 Meaning and 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 ( Psalms 103:3 ) , this is done by the application of the blood of Christ, the only physician, and whose blood is the balm that heals every wound; and this springs from the love of God, and his free favour to his people, even the riches of his grace and abounding mercy through Christ; and is the great motive and inducement, and what gives the greatest encouragement to return unto the Lord, ( Hosea 14:1-4 ) ( Isaiah 55:7 ) . Behold, we come unto thee;
the Targum represents this as what the Jews pretended always to say, and did say, in a hypocritical manner, with which they are upbraided,

``lo, at all times ye say, we return to thy worship, save us;''

and Jarchi is of opinion that these are words the prophet put into their mouths, and taught them to say, and to confess in this manner: but they are rather their own words, arising from a true sense of sin, under the influence of divine grace, and encouraged with the hope and assurance of pardon; declaring that as they were called upon to return, so they did return, and now were come to God by repentance, with confession and acknowledgment of sin, and by prayer and supplication for pardon and by the exercise of faith upon him for it; and also were come into his house to wait upon him, and worship him in his ordinances: for thou art the Lord our God;
not merely as the God of nature and providence, or in a natural way, but in a way of special grace, of which they now will have an application by the Spirit of God.

Jeremías 3:22 In-Context

20 Sin embargo, me fuiste infiel, ¡pueblo de Israel!
Has sido como una esposa infiel que deja a su marido.
Yo, el Señor
, he hablado”».

21 Se escuchan voces en las alturas de las montañas desoladas,
el llanto y las súplicas del pueblo de Israel.
Pues han escogido caminos torcidos
y se han olvidado del Señor
su Dios.

22 «Vuelvan a mí, hijos descarriados —dice el Señor
—,
y les sanaré el corazón extraviado».
«Sí, ya vamos —responde el pueblo—,
porque tú eres el Señor
nuestro Dios.

23 Nuestro culto a ídolos en las colinas
y nuestras orgías religiosas en las montañas
son una falsa ilusión.
Solo en el Señor
nuestro Dios
encontrará Israel salvación.

24 Desde la niñez hemos visto
cómo todo aquello por lo que trabajaron nuestros antepasados
—sus ganados y rebaños, sus hijos e hijas—
se despilfarraba en una falsa ilusión.