Israel, return to Yahweh your God; For you have fallen because of your sin.
for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity; or "though thou art fallen" z; into sin, and by it into ruin, temporal and spiritual; from a state of great prosperity and happiness, both in things civil and religious, into great adversity, and calamities of every sort; yet return, repent, consider from whence thou art fallen, and by what; or thou shall return, be recovered and restored, notwithstanding thy fall, and the low estate in which thou art. The Targum is,