The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

And my people are bent on backsliding from me. Though they call them to [him who is] on high, none at all will exalt [him].

I will heal their backsliding. I will love them freely. For my anger is turned away from him.

For the backsliding of the simple shall kill them, and the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was angry, and smote him. I hid [my face] and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.

Why then has this people of Jerusalem slid back by a perpetual backsliding? They hold firm deceit. They refuse to return.

How long will thou go here and there, O thou backsliding daughter? For LORD has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.

Why do thou glory in the valleys, thy flowing valley? O backsliding daughter, who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?