Jeremiah 3:4

WEB

⁴Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?

KJV

⁴Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

BSB

⁴Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.

FBV

⁴Didn't you just tell me, “My father, you've been such a close friend to me since I was little.

Extra References

Jeremiah 2:2

²“Go and proclaim in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, ‘The LORD says, “I remember for you the kindness of your youth, your love as a bride, how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Jeremiah 3:19

¹⁹“But I said, ‘How I desire to put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!’ and I said, ‘You shall call me “My Father”, and shall not turn away from following me.’

Jeremiah 31:9

⁹They will come with weeping. I will lead them with petitions. I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they won’t stumble; for I am a father to Israel. Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 2:27

²⁷who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’

Psalms 71:17

¹⁷God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

Proverbs 2:17

¹⁷who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;

Jeremiah 31:18-20

¹⁸“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving thus, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as an untrained calf. Turn me, and I will be turned, for you are the LORD my God. ¹⁹Surely after that I was turned. I repented. After that I was instructed. I struck my thigh. I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I bore the reproach of my youth.’ ²⁰Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I still earnestly remember him. Therefore my heart yearns for him. I will surely have mercy on him,” says the LORD.

Hosea 2:15

¹⁵I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley 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.

Hosea 14:1-3

¹Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. ²Take words with you, and return to the LORD. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good; so we offer bulls as we vowed of our lips. ³Assyria can’t save us. We won’t ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, ‘Our gods!’ for in you the fatherless finds mercy.”

Proverbs 1:4

⁴to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man—