Return ye back-sliding children] Vers. 14. Hosea 14:1.
I will hea your back-slidings] I will passe them by; and be fully reconciled again to you. Or, I will repair those ruines, and remove those evils, that by your revolt from me ye have brought upon your selves, Isaiah 57:18. Chap. 32. 40. Zechariah 10:6.
behold, we come unto thee] Spoken, either by God to his people, putting such words into their mouthes, as he would have them to use; Vers. 4, 5. Hosea 14:2-3. Or, in the person of Israel, to shame Judah for her backwardnesse: as 2 Samuel 19:11-12.