Jer 4:1, 8:4 | JFB | e4.org | 1. return . . . return —play on words. "If thou wouldest return to thy land (thou must first), return ( by conversion and repentance) to Me. " not remove —no longer be an unsettled wanderer in a strange land. So Cain ( ).

‏ Jeremiah 4:1

1. return . . . return—play on words. "If thou wouldest return to thy land (thou must first), return (by conversion and repentance) to Me."

not remove—no longer be an unsettled wanderer in a strange land. So Cain (Ge 4:12, 14).

‏ Jeremiah 8:4

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 (Jer 3:12; 4:1).