Jeremiah 3:4

Jeremiah 3:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
• New International Version (NIV)Have you not just called to me: ‘My Father, my friend from my youth,
• English Standard Version (ESV)Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you are the friend of my youth—
• New King James Version (NKJV)Will you not from this time cry to Me, ‘My Father, You are the guide of my youth?

Context of Jeremiah 3:4

2“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Is there any place where you have not been violated? You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness. 3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed. Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth. 5Will He be angry forever? Will He be indignant to the end?’ This you have spoken, but you keep doing all the evil you can.” 6Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

Jeremiah 3:4 word by word

הֲל֣וֹא מֵעַ֔תָּה קָרָ֥את לִ֖י אָבִ֑י אַלּ֥וּף נְעֻרַ֖י אָֽתָּה׃Read the interlinear

• Have you notלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• justעַתָּ֫ה‛attâh · nowH6258
• calledקָרָאqârâ' · to call: call toH7121
• My Fatherאָב'âb · fatherH1
• Youאַתָּ֫ה'attâh 'attâ 'ath 'attîy 'attem 'atten 'attênâh 'attênnâh · you(m.s.)H859
• my friendאַלּוּף'alûph 'allûph · tameH441
• from youthנְעוּרִיםnâ‛ûr nâ‛ûr ne‛ûrâh · youthH5271

Cross-references for Jeremiah 3:4

• Jeremiah 3:19Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
• Jeremiah 31:9They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”
• Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
• Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
• Jeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
• Psalms 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
• Psalms 71:5For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
• Psalms 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
• Proverbs 1:4To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
• Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
• Hosea 2:15There I will give back her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt.
• Malachi 2:14Yet you ask, “Why?” It is because the LORD has been a witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have broken faith, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 3:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Wilt thou not - cry unto me, My father - Wilt thou not allow me to be thy Creator and Preserver, and cease thus to acknowledge idols? See on Jeremiah 2:27; (note).Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Or, Hast thou Not from this time called “me, My Father, thou art the” husband “of my youth?” i. e., from the time of Josiah‘s reforms in his eighteenth year, in opposition to “of old time” Jeremiah 2:20.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5Instead of confessing their sins, the people tried to hide them with sweet talk. However, God saw through their deception. They were right that he would not be angry forever (Psalm 103:9; Isaiah 57:16; Malachi 1:6), but he promised to show his wrath (Jeremiah 4:7).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. 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" (Jr 2:27; Lu 15:18). thou art--rather, "thou wast." guide of ... youth--that is, husband (Jr 2:2; Pr 2:17; Ho 2:7, 15). Husband and father are the two most endearing of ties.Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 3:4

• Backsliders
• Church
• Condescension of God
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• Idolatry
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In the dictionaries

• Adultery
• Confusion
• Marriage
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• Child; Children
• Father
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• Guide
• Habaziniah

Commentaries on Jeremiah 3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings