Jeremiah 3:4
Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, thou, art my hope, My Lord, Yahweh, My confidence from my youthful days:
Psalms 119:9[BETH.] Wherewithal can a young man keep pure his way? By taking heed, according to thy word.
Proverbs 2:17Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, and, the covenant of her God, hath forgotten;
Jeremiah 2:27Saying, to a tree, My father, art thou! And to a stone, Thou, didst give us birth, For they have turned unto me the back and not the face,—But in the time of their calamity, they will say, Arise, and save us!
Jeremiah 31:9With weeping, shall they come in, And with supplications, will I lead them, I will bring them unto rivers of waters By a smooth way, wherein they shall not stumble,—For I have become, to Israel, a father, And as for Ephraim, my firstborn, is he!
Jeremiah 31:22How long wilt thou turn hither and thither, O apostate daughter? For Yahweh hath created a new thing in the earth, A female defendeth, a strong 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 →