Here we find the inverse of Nehemiah 1:7. As acting very corruptly received colour from the words have not kept the commandments,
here the word return
receives colour from the additional words and keep my commandments and do them.
The turn-around implied in the word return
demonstrates itself through a very changed pattern of behaviour (repentance).
9 but if you return to me and keep my commandments and do them, though your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of heaven, from there I will gather them and bring them to the place that I have chosen, to make my name dwell there.’