“And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:”
King James Version (KJV)
8:48 And return - Sincerely, universally, and steadfastly.
8:49 Their course - Heb. their right, against their invaders andoppressors. For they had forfeited all their rights to God only, but not totheir enemies; whom tho' God used as scourges to chastise his peoples sins,yet they had no pretence of right to their land.