I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
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Gill's Exposition
I will go and return to my place,.... Leave the countries of Israel and of Judah, where he had used to grant his gracious and spiritual presence unto his people, and watched over them, and cared for…
Barnes' Notes
I will go and return to My place - As the wild beast, when he has taken his prey, returns to his covert, so God, when He had fulfilled His will, would, for the time, withdraw all tokens of his…
Adam Clarke
I will go and return to my place - I will abandon them till they acknowledge their offenses. This had the wished-for effect, as we shall see in the following chapter; for they repented and turned to…
Here is, I. A loud alarm sounded, giving notice of judgments coming (Hos 5:8): Blow you the cornet in Gibeah and in Ramah, two cities near together in the confines of the two kingdoms of Judah and…
Cambridge Bible
return to my place See Mic 1:3, from which it is clear that Jehovah's -place" is the heavenly temple (Isa 6:1). Now that Jehovah has for a time deserted his guilty people, he will return to his seat…
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