Jeremiah 3:4

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Jeremiah 3:4

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

Wilt thou

Jeremiah 3:19

Jeremiah 31:9

Hosea 14:1

My father

Jeremiah 2:27

The guide

Bible References

Wilt thou

Then I thought, 'How I would set you among the children, and I would give you a land of desire, an inheritance of [the] glory of [the] hosts of nations.' And I thought, 'You would call me, "My father," and you would not turn back from {behind} me.'

With weeping they will come, and with pleas for mercy I will bring them; I will let them walk by streams of water in a straight path. They will not stumble in it, for I have become to Israel a father, and Ephraim, he [is] my firstborn."

Return to Yahweh your God, Israel, for you have stumbled because of your sin.

My father

[Those who] say to the tree, 'You [are] my father,' and to the stone, 'You gave birth [to] me.' For they have turned [their] {backs} to me, and not [their] faces. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us.'

The guide

"Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, {saying}, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I remember [concerning] you the loyal love of your childhood, the love of your betrothal-time, your going after me in the desert, in [the] land not sown.

that this [is] God, our God forever and ever. {He himself} will guide us until death.

because you [are] my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

How can a young man keep his way pure? By taking heed according to your word.

to give shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and purpose to the young,

she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God,

From there I will give her her vineyards, and the Valley of Achor as a doorway of hope. And there she will respond, as [in] the days of her youth, just as [in] the day of her coming out of the land of Egypt.

But you ask, "{For what reason}?" Because Yahweh stands as a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have been unfaithful, even though she [is] your marriage partner and {your wife by covenant}.