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New Century Version

Jeremiah 3:4

Now you are calling to me, ‘My father, you have been my friend since I was young.

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?
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—
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?
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 "If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should her first husband come back to her again? If he went back to her, wouldn't the land become completely unclean? But you have acted like a prostitute with many lovers, and now you want to come back to me?" says the Lord . 2 "Look up to the bare hilltops, Judah. Is there any place where you have not been a prostitute? You have sat by the road waiting for lovers, like an Arab in the desert. You made the land unclean, because you did evil and were like a prostitute. 3 So the rain has not come, and there have not been any spring rains. But your face still looks like the face of a prostitute. You refuse even to be ashamed of what you did. 4 Now you are calling to me, ‘My father, you have been my friend since I was young. 5 Will you always be angry at me? Will your anger last forever?' Judah, you said this, but you did as much evil as you could!"

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 the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Deuteronomy 29:19
These are the kind of people who hear these curses but bless themselves, thinking, "We will be safe even though we continue doing what we want to do." Those people may destroy all of your land, both wet and dry.
2 Kings 1:4
This is what the Lord says: ‘You will never get up from the bed you are lying on; you will die.'" Then Elijah left.
2 Kings 1:6
They said, "A man came to meet us. He said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him what the Lord says: "Why do you send messengers to ask questions of Baal-Zebub, god of Ekron? Is it because you think there is no God in Israel? You will never get up from the bed you are lying on; you will die."'"
2 Kings 1:16
Elijah told Ahaziah, "This is what the Lord says: ‘You have sent messengers to ask questions of Baal-Zebub, god of Ekron. Is it because you think there is no God in Israel to ask? Because of this, you will never get up from your bed; you will die.'"
2 Kings 8:10
Elisha said to Hazael, "Go and tell Ben-Hadad, ‘You will surely recover,' but the Lord has told me he will really die."
Psalms 10:11
The wicked think, "God has forgotten us. He doesn't see what is happening."
2 Corinthians 2:11
I did this so that Satan would not win anything from us, because we know very well what Satan's plans are.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that your minds will be led away from your true and pure following of Christ just as Eve was tricked by the snake with his evil ways.
1 Timothy 2:14
And Adam was not tricked, but the woman was tricked and became a sinner.

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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