Jeremiah 4:1 meaning and explanation

“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,

Jeremiah 4:1, Berean Standard Bible

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Jeremiah 4 opens with the LORD speaking through the prophet to the northern kingdom of Israel, whose people had been carried into exile and whose land had long been marked by idol worship. The Hebrew verb shuv, meaning to turn or return, carries the sense of repentance, and the LORD repeats it to make the invitation personal: returning to Him is the whole of it.

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