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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Jeremiah 3:4

Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Church;   Condescension of God;   God Continued...;   Idolatry;   Repentance;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Solomon's Song;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Fatherhood of God;   God, Names of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Marriage;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Son of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Immorality;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Ideas (Leading);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ammi;   Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Child;   Father;   Guide;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abba;   God, Children of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Haven’t you recently called to me, “My Father.You were my friend in my youth.
Hebrew Names Version
Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?
King James Version
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
English Standard Version
Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the friend 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 Century Version
Now you are calling to me, ‘My father, you have been my friend since I was young.
Amplified Bible
"Will you not just now call out to Me, 'My Father, you were the guide and companion of my youth?
World English Bible
Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Diddest thou not stil crie vnto me, Thou art my father, and the guide of my youth?
Legacy Standard Bible
Have you not just now called to Me,‘My Father, You are the close companion of my youth?
Berean Standard Bible
Have you not just called to Me, 'My Father, You are my friend from youth.
Contemporary English Version
You call me your father or your long-lost friend;
Complete Jewish Bible
Didn't you just now cry to me, ‘My father, you are my friend from my youth'? —
Darby Translation
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Easy-to-Read Version
But didn't you just call me ‘Father'? Didn't you say, ‘You have been my friend since I was a child'?
George Lamsa Translation
Behold, now you say to me, My father, and thou art foster mother of my childhood.
Good News Translation
"And now you say to me, ‘You are my father, and you have loved me ever since I was a child.
Lexham English Bible
Have you not just now called to me, ‘My father, you are the close friend of my youth?
Literal Translation
Have you not just now called to Me, saying , My father, You are the friend of my youth?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Els woldest thou saye vnto me: O my father, thou art he that hast brought me vp, and led me fro my youth:
American Standard Version
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Bible in Basic English
Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Didst thou not just now cry unto Me: 'My father, Thou art the friend of my youth.
King James Version (1611)
Wilt thou not from this time cry vnto me; My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wylt thou not herafter say vnto me, O my father, thou art he that hast brought me vp, and led me from my youth?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hast thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy virgin-time?
English Revised Version
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nameli fro this tyme forth clepe thou me, Thou art my fadir, the ledere of my virginyte.
Update Bible Version
Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of my youth?
Webster's Bible Translation
Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth?
New English Translation
Even now you say to me, ‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
New King James Version
Will you not from this time cry to Me, "My Father, You are the guide of my youth?
New Living Translation
Yet you say to me, ‘Father, you have been my guide since my youth.
New Life Bible
Have you not just now called to Me? You said, ‘My Father, You have been my friend since I was young.
New Revised Standard
Have you not just now called to me, "My Father, you are the friend of my youth—
Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore at the least from this time call to me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity:
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 American Standard Bible (1995)
"Have you not just now called to Me, 'My Father, You are the friend of my youth?

Contextual Overview

1 He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him and become another man's, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet thinkest to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh. 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights and see - where thou hast not been unchastely embraced! beside the ways, hast thou sat to them, like the Arabian m the desert, - and hast defiled the land with thine unchastities, and with thy wickedness. 3 Therefore have been withholden the showers, And, the latter rain, hath not come, - Yet the forehead of an unchaste woman, hast thou, Thou hast refused to be ashamed. 4 Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou? 5 Will he maintain his anger to times age-abiding? Will he keep it perpetually? Lo! thou hast spoken thus but hast done wicked things and had thy way!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Wilt thou: Jeremiah 3:19, Jeremiah 31:9, Jeremiah 31:18-20, Hosea 14:1-3

My father: Jeremiah 2:27

the guide: Jeremiah 2:2, Psalms 48:14, Psalms 71:5, Psalms 71:17, Psalms 119:9, Proverbs 1:4, Proverbs 2:17, Hosea 2:15, Malachi 2:14

Reciprocal: Psalms 71:6 - By thee Isaiah 42:23 - will give Joel 1:8 - the husband Galatians 4:6 - crying Ephesians 1:5 - unto

Cross-References

Genesis 3:13
Then said Yahweh God to the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, the serpent, deceived me, so I did eat.
Deuteronomy 29:19
and so it come to pass while he is hearing the words of this oath, that he will bless himself in his heart - saying, Prosperity, shall I have, although in the stubbornness of my heart, I go on, - so that the drunkenness addeth to the thirst:
2 Kings 1:4
Wherefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, From the bed whereunto thou hast gone up, shalt thou not come down, for thou shalt, surely die. And Elijah departed.
2 Kings 1:6
And they said unto him - A man, came up to meet us, and said unto us - Go, return unto the king who sent you, and ye shall say unto him, Thus, saith Yahweh - Is it, because there is no God in Israel, that, thou, art sending to enquire of Baalzebub, god of Ekron? Therefore, from the bed whereunto thou hast gone up, shalt thou not come down, for thou shalt, surely die.
2 Kings 1:16
and said unto him - Thus, saith Yahweh - For that thou didst send messengers to enquire of Baalzebub, god of Ekron, was it because there was no God in Israel, for whose word thou couldst enquire? Therefore, from the bed whereunto thou hast gone up, shalt thou not come down, for thou shalt, surely die.
2 Kings 8:10
And Elisha said unto him, Go, say to him, Thou shalt, recover; And yet Yahweh hath shown me, that he will, die.
Psalms 10:11
He hath said in his heart, GOD hath forgotten, - He hath veiled his face, Oh he hath never seen!
2 Corinthians 2:11
Lest we should be overreached by Satan, for, of his thoughts, we are not ignorant.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest, by any means, as, the serpent, completely deceived Eve, in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the singleness and the chastenesswhich are due unto the Christ.
1 Timothy 2:14
And, Adam, was not deceived, whereas, the woman, having been wholly deceived, hath come to be, in transgression;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me,.... These words are either a confirmation and proof of that impudence with which these people are charged; for had they not been impudent, or had not a forehead like a whorish woman; or were they truly ashamed, they would have cried to the Lord henceforward; called upon him; claimed their relation to him; and owned his favours in time past: or, if they had not been impudent, they would not have dared from this time to have called God their Father and their guide, when they had so wickedly sinned against him; so that this is a charge of hypocrisy and deceit, calling God their Father and guide, when they were at the same time worshipping idols: or rather they are expressive of the wondrous grace and goodness of God towards this people, that had so highly offended him, yet he expostulates with them, puts words into their mouths to return unto him with, saying:

my father; I have sinned against thee, and am not worthy of the relation, yet receive me as a returning prodigal:

thou art the guide of my youth; or, "hast been": I acknowledge the favours I have received in time past, which is an aggravation of my sin; reject me not, but receive me graciously into thy favour; see

Hosea 14:2, so the Targum interprets the words as a prayer,

"wilt thou not from this time pray before me, saying, thou art my Lord, my Redeemer, which art of old?''

or else they point to them their duty, what they ought to do from henceforward; that seeing the Lord had withheld from them the former and latter rain for their idolatry, it became them to return to him by repentance; and to call upon him, who had been their Father and their guide in time past, to have mercy on them, and avert his judgments from them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Jeremiah 3:4. Wilt 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.


 
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