Jeremiah 3:4
Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 71:5For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
Psalms 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
Jeremiah 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
Jeremiah 31:22How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land— a woman will shelter a man.”
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:2-6
The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 620.) 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord . 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy… Read the whole commentary →