Jeremiah 3:4 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 3:4

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.

YLT

Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?

DBT

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

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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Jeremiah 3:19
But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt 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.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Psalms 71:6
By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
Proverbs 2:17
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

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The impenitence of Judah, and their persisting in sin, are aggravated from the judgments of God upon Israel, which they should have taken warning by,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Wilt thou not at this time, nay, wilt thou not from this time and forward, cry unto me? Whatever thou hast said or done hitherto, wilt thou not from this time apply to me? From this time of conviction and correction, now that thou hast been made to see thy sins (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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