Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Holman Bible
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?
Amplified
“Will you not just now call out to Me,
‘My Father, you were the guide and companion of my youth?
Bible in Basic English
Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?
Darby Translation
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Julia Smith Translation
From the time didst thou not call to me, My father, thou the friend of my youth?
King James 2000
Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you [are] the close friend of my youth?
Modern King James verseion
Will you not from this time cry to Me, My father, You are the guide of my youth?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Else wouldst thou say unto me, 'O my father, thou art he that hast brought me up, and led me from my youth:
NET Bible
Even now you say to me, 'You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
New Heart English Bible
Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
Webster
Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
World English Bible
Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
Youngs Literal Translation
Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 3:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unfaithfulness Of Contemporary Israel
3 Therefore have been withholden the showers, And, the latter rain, hath not come, - Yet the forehead of an unchaste woman, hast thou, Thou hast refused to be ashamed. 4 Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou? 5 Will he maintain his anger to times age-abiding? Will he keep it perpetually? Lo! thou hast spoken thus but hast done wicked things and had thy way!
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying - Thus saith Yahweh, I remember in thy behalf, the lovingkindness of thy youthful days, The love of thy bridal estate, - Thy coming out after me, Through the desert, Through a land, not sown:
Jeremiah 3:19
Though, I myself, had said, - How can I put thee among the sons, And give thee a land to be coveted, An inheritance of beauty, of the hosts of nations? Yet I said, My father, shalt thou call me, And away from me, shalt thou not turn.
Psalm 71:17
O God, thou hast taught me from my youthful days, And, hitherto, have I been wont to tell of thy wonders;
Proverbs 2:17
Who forsaketh the friend of her youth, and, the covenant of her God, hath forgotten;
Jeremiah 31:9
With 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!
Hosea 2:15
Then will I give to her her vineyards from thence, and the vale of Achor for a door of hope, - and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Psalm 48:14
For, this God, is our God, to times age-abiding and beyond, He himself, will conduct us till death.
Psalm 71:5
For, thou, art my hope, My Lord, Yahweh, My confidence from my youthful days:
Psalm 119:9
[BETH] Wherewithal can a young man keep pure his way? By taking heed, according to thy word.
Proverbs 1:4
For giving To the simple shrewdness, To the young man, knowledge and discretion.
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying, 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 31:18-20
I have, heard, Ephraim bemoaning himself, Thou hast chastised me and I have been chastised, Like a bullock, not broken in, Suffer me to return that I may return, For thou, art Yahweh my God.
Hosea 14:1-3
Return thou, O Israel, unto Yahweh thy God, - for thou hast stumbled by thine iniquity.
Malachi 2:14
Yet ye say, For what cause? Because, Yahweh, hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, with whom, thou, hast dealt treacherously, though, she, was thy consort, and thy covenant wife.