Jeremiah 3:7 (WEB)
I said after she had done all these things, ‘She will return to me;’ but she didn’t return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.
Catechism · 1
“But the respective "perfections" of man and woman reflect something of the infinite perfection of God: those of a mother and those of a father and husband.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Is 49:14-15; 66: 13; Ps 131:2-3; Hos 11:1-4; Jer 3:4- 19.
Fathers and councils · 4
John Chrysostom
“Hear what God saith unto Jerusalem, “I said, after she had committed all these whoredoms, Turn thou unto me, and she returned not.”” — editor's note: Jer. iii. 7.
Read the whole comment“Which He doth in the prophets also, using these words, “I said, Turn thou unto me, and she returned not.”” — editor's note: Jer. iii. 7.
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Jerome
“But she returned not.”” — editor's note: Jer. iii. 6, 7.
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Basil the Great
“Why did the virgin turn shamefully away, though she had heard Christ her bridegroom saying through the mouth of Jeremiah, “And I said, after she had done all these things (committed all these fornications, LXX.), turn thou unto me, but she returned not?”” — editor's note: Jer. iii. 7.
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