Comentários de Citação sobre Isaías 57:17

The two mentions of “v’shav” [and he will return] that appear one after the other — the first one speaks of the forgiveness of previous sin called “shvutcha” [your captivity/rebellion], like the wayward daughter (Jeremiah 31:21), and like he went on rebelliously in the way of his heart (Isaiah 57:17), and like Return, backsliding Israel (Jeremiah 3:12), and many others like these. Regarding this it says, And the Lord your God will return your captivity and have compassion on you, because even your captivity/rebellion that is attributed to you, meaning the sin, will be transformed into merit, as our Sages said (Yoma 86b) that through repentance, intentional sins become like merits. This is what is meant by and have compassion on you, which is an expression of love. That is to say, the Holy One, blessed be He, will love your captivity/rebellion because the intentional sins will be, in His blessed eyes, like merits, and He will love them greatly.

And I shall unbridle you [Heb. וְשּׁוֹבַבְתִּיךָ.] I shall make you שׁוֹבָב a unbridled, backsliding, envoyzer in Old French, to unbridle. Whoever follows the dictates of his heart is called שּׁוֹבַב, as (Isa. 57: 17): “for he went rebelliously (שּׁוֹבֵב) in the way of his heart.”

To bring you back from your waywardness. To straighten you out of your waywardness, an expression of “rebellious שׁוֹבְבָה,”³⁵Yirmiyahu 8;5. “ backsliding שׁוֹבָבִים,”³⁶Ibid., 3:14. “and he went waywardly שׁוֹבָב.”³⁷Yeshayahuu 57:17.