Jeremiah 3:4 - Forerunner Commentary

Jeremiah 3:4

2 “Lift up your eyes to ^athe desolate heights and see:
Where have you not¹ lain with men?
^bBy the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
^cAnd you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.

3 Therefore the ^ashowers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a ^bharlot’s forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.

4 Will you not from this time cry to Me,
‘My Father, You are ^athe guide of ^bmy youth?

5 ^aWill He remain angry forever?
Will He keep it to the end?’
Behold, you have spoken and done evil things,
As you were able.”

A Call to Repentance

6 The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what ^abacksliding Israel has done? She has ^bgone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot.

7 ^aAnd I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous ^bsister Judah saw it.

8 Then I saw that ^afor all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had ^bput her away and given her a certificate of divorce; ^cyet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.

9 So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she ^adefiled the land and committed adultery with ^bstones and trees.

Verse Comparison: Jeremiah 3:4

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

Amplified® Bible
Have you not just now cried to Me: My Father, You were the guide {and} companion of my youth?

Contemporary English Version
You call me your father or your long-lost friend;

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

Good News Bible
"And now you say to me, 'You are my father, and you have loved me ever since I was a child.

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

New American Standard Bible
"Have you not just now called to Me, `My Father, You are the friend of my youth?

New International Version
Have you not just called to me:
'My Father, my friend from my youth,

New King James Version
Will you not from this time cry to Me,
"My Father, You are the guide of my youth?

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
"Have you not just now called to Me, ' My Father, I consider you the friend of my youth?

Revised Standard Version
Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, thou art the friend of my youth--

Young's Literal Translation
Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou `art' the leader of my youth?

New English Translation
Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father!¹ You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.

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