Jeremiah 3:4

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Have you not from now on called to Me, || My Father, You [are] the leader of my youth?

YLT

Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou [art] the leader of my youth?

DBY

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

DRC

Therefore at least at this time call to me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity:

GNV

Diddest thou not stil crie vnto me, Thou art my father, and the guide of my youth?

JPS

Didst thou not just now cry unto Me: 'My father, Thou art the friend of my youth.

LXXE

Hast thou not called me as it were a home, and the father and guide of thy virgin-time?

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Original-language editions

WLC

הֲל֣וֹא מֵעַ֔תָּה קראתי לִ֖י אָבִ֑י אַלּ֥וּף נְעֻרַ֖י אָֽתָּה׃Read aloud as (qere): קָרָ֥את

LXX-Br

Οὐχ ὡς οἶκόν με ἐκαλέσας, καὶ πατέρα καὶ ἀρχηγὸν τῆς παρθενίας σου;

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• 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.
• 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…
• Jeremiah 31:18–20I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God. After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I…
• 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.
• Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
• Jeremiah 2:27say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble they beg, ‘Rise up and save us!’
• Psalms 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
• Psalms 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
• Psalms 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
• 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.
• Hosea 14:1–3Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity. Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the…
• Proverbs 1:4To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
• Psalms 71:5For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.

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