I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.

I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely - God's gracious reply to their self-condemning prayer.

Backsliding - apostasy; not merely occasional backslidings. God can heal the most desperate sinfulness (Calvin).

Freely - with a gratuitous, unmerited, and abundant love (Ezekiel 16:60-26). So as to the spiritual Israel (John 15:16; Romans 3:24, "Being justified freely (literally, gratuitously) by His grace;" Romans 5:8; 1 John 4:10). The Hebrew is, literally, moved by myself, of my own accord [ nªdaabaah (H5071)].

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