Jeremiah 3:4

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Summary

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

"'I have showed also, how I took thee up being but a child, and gave thee a pleasant land for thine heritage; yea, and a goodly Host of the Heathen: and how I commanded thee, that thou shouldest call me Father only, and not to shrink from me.

They departed from hence in heaviness, but with joy will I bring them hither again. I will lead them by the rivers of water in a straight way, where they shall not stumble: For I will be Israel's father, and Ephraim shall be my firstborn.

Turn Israel unto the LORD thy God: For thou art fallen for thy wickednesses' sake.

My father

For they say to a stock, 'Thou art my father,' and to a stone, 'Thou hast begotten me.' Yea, they have turned their back upon me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble, when they say, 'Stand up and help us!'

The guide

"Go thy way, cry in the ears of Jerusalem, and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: I remember thee for the kindness of thy youth, and because of thy steadfast love: in that thou followedst me through the wilderness, in an untilled land.

For this God is our God for ever and ever; he shall be our guide unto death.

For thou, O LORD God, art the thing that I long for; thou art my hope even from my youth.

{Beth} Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? Even by ruling himself after thy word.

That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding.

forsaketh the husband of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

There will I give her, her vineyards again; yea, and the valley of Achor also, to show her hope and comfort. Then shall she sing there as in the time of her youth, and like as in the day when she came out of the land of Egypt.

And yet ye say, 'Wherefore?' Even because that whereas the LORD made a covenant betwixt thee and the wife of thy youth, thou hast despised her: Yet is she thine own companion and married wife.