Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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" (Jeremiah 2:27; Luke 15:18).
thou art—rather, "thou wast."
guide of . . . youth—that is, husband (Jeremiah 2:2; Proverbs 2:17; Hosea 2:7, Hosea 2:15). Husband and father are the two most endearing of ties.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Jeremiah 3:4:
Proverbs 2:17
Ecclesiastes 12:1
Jeremiah 2:27
Jeremiah 2:37
Joel 1:8
Matthew 6:9
Luke 15:13
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