Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 8:4

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4. "Is it not a natural instinct, that if one falls, he rises again; if one turns away (that is, wanders from the way), he will return to the point from which he wandered? Why then does not Jerusalem do so?" He plays on the double sense of return; literal and metaphorical ( Jeremiah 3:12 ; Jeremiah 4:1 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"