Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?
World English Bible Classic
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, Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
Psalms 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Proverbs 2:17who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;
Jeremiah 2:27who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
Jeremiah 31:9They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.
Jeremiah 31:22How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman will encompass 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 →