Jeremiah 3:4 Have you not just called to me: 'My Father, my friend from my youth,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Have you not just called to me: 'My Father, my friend from my youth,

English Standard Version
Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend of my youth—

New American Standard Bible
"Have you not just now called to Me, 'My Father, You are the friend of my youth?

King James Bible
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Have you not lately called to Me, "My Father. You were my friend in my youth.

International Standard Version
Have you not just called out to me, 'My father, you are the friend of my youth—

American Standard Version
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore at least at this time call to me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity:

Darby Bible Translation
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

Young's Literal Translation
Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?

Cross References

Psalm 71:17
O God, you have taught me from my youth: and till now have I declared your wondrous works.

Proverbs 2:17
Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said the LORD; I remember you, the kindness of your youth, the love of your espousals, when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, You shall call me, My father; and shall not turn away from me.

Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Hosea 2:15
And I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

Malachi 1:6
A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honor? and if I be a master, where is my fear? said the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:1-5 In repentance, it is good to think upon the sins of which we have been guilty, and the places and companies where they have been committed. How gently the Lord had corrected them! In receiving penitents, he is God, and not man. Whatever thou hast said or done hitherto, wilt thou not from this time apply to me? Will not this grace of God overcome thee? Now pardon is proclaimed, wilt thou not take the benefit? They will hope to find in him the tender compassions of a Father towards a returning prodigal. They will come to him as the Guide of their youth: youth needs a guide. Repenting sinners may encourage themselves that God will not keep his anger to the end. All God's mercies, in every age, suggest encouragement; and what can be so desirable for the young, as to have the Lord for their Father, and the Guide of their youth? Let parents daily direct their children earnestly to seek this blessing.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4. from this time—not referring, as Michaelis thinks, to the reformation begun the year before, that is, the twelfth of Josiah; it means—now at once, now at last.

me—contrasted with the "stock" whom they had heretofore called on as "father" (Jer 2:27; Lu 15:18).

thou art—rather, "thou wast."

guide of … youth—that is, husband (Jer 2:2; Pr 2:17; Ho 2:7, 15). Husband and father are the two most endearing of ties.