שׁ֚וּבוּ בָּנִ֣ים שׁוֹבָבִ֔ים אֶרְפָּ֖ה מְשׁוּבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם הִנְנוּ֙ אָתָ֣נוּ לָ֔ךְ כִּ֥י אַתָּ֖ה יְהֹוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃
Magbalik kayo, mga suwail na anak, at pagagalingin Ko ang inyong pagtalikod. “Narito kami, lumalapit kami sa Iyo, sapagkat Ikaw ang Walang-Hanggan na aming Diyos.”
Rashi
when I will return the backsliding of My people When I admonish them to return from their backsliding.
Rashi
and your backslidings, Heb. ומשבותיך, an expression related to “backsliding children (שובבים)” (infra 3:22).
Chidushei Agadot
A Divine Voice went forth saying, "'Return, rebellious children' (Jeremiah 3:22), apart from Acher," etc.: And likewise he said later, "I have heard behind the curtain, etc." And the wording in the Yerushalmi is: Once I rode on a horse on Yom Kippur which fell out on a Shabbat and I heard a Divine Voice going forth from the house of the holy of holies, saying, "Return, children, apart from Acher - since he knew My power and rebelled against me." To here [is the Yerushalmi]. But he nevertheless should not have paid attention to the Divine Voice about this. And it is like Rabbi Meir said to him during his sickness, "You bring back a man, up to extinction (Psalms 90:3)." And we say, "You have nothing that stands in front of repentance."