Jeremiah 3:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.”
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“Have you not just called to Me, ‘My Father, You are my friend from youth.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, `My father, Thou <FI>art<Fi> the leader of my youth?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 3:4 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 48:14For this God is our God forever and ever; He will be our guide even till death.
- Psalms 71:5For You are my hope, O Lord GOD, my confidence from my youth.
- Psalms 71:17O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- Psalms 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to Your word.
- Proverbs 1:4To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,
- Proverbs 2:17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
- 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 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!’
- 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 firstborn.”
- Jeremiah 31:18I 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.
- Jeremiah 31:22How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land— a woman will shelter a man.”
- 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.
- Hosea 14:1Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
- 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.
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