Jeremiah 3:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?

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  • Jer 2:2 : 2 Go and say in the ears of Jerusalem, The Lord says, I still keep the memory of your kind heart when you were young, and your love when you became my bride; how you went after me in the waste of sand, in an unplanted land.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.
  • Ps 71:17 : 17 O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.
  • Hos 2:15 : 15 And I will give her vine-gardens from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will give her answer there as in the days when she was young, and as in the time when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Prov 2:17 : 17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
  • Hos 14:1-3 : 1 Samaria will be made waste, for she has gone against her God: they will be cut down by the sword, their little children will be broken on the rocks, their women who are with child will be cut open. 2 O Israel, come back to the Lord your God; for your evil-doing has been the cause of your fall. 3 Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your early years, to whom you have been untrue, though she is your friend and the wife to whom you have given your word.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.
  • Prov 1:4 : 4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
  • Ps 48:14 : 14 Because this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide.
  • Ps 71:5 : 5 For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God. 19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he the child of my delight? for whenever I say things against him, I still keep him in my memory: so my heart is troubled for him; I will certainly have mercy on him, says the Lord.
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

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    19 But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.

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  • Deut 32:6-7
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    6 Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.

    7 Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

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    18 (For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)

  • Jer 3:5
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    5 Will he be angry for ever? will he keep his wrath to the end? These things you have said, and have done evil and have had your way.

  • Jer 22:21
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    21 My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.

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    26 He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.

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    1 Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

  • Prov 4:3
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    3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

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    26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

  • Isa 63:15-16
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    15 Let your eyes be looking down from heaven, from your holy and beautiful house: where is your deep feeling, the working of your power? do not keep back the moving of your pity and your mercies:

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    27 Your first father was a sinner, and your guides have gone against my word.

  • Ps 39:12
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    12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

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    27 Who say to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have given me life: for their backs have been turned to me, not their faces: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Up! and be our saviour.

  • Jer 31:18-19
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    18 Certainly Ephraim's words of grief have come to my ears, You have given me training and I have undergone it like a young cow unused to the yoke: let me be turned and come back, for you are the Lord my God.

    19 Truly, after I had been turned, I had regret for my ways; and after I had got knowledge, I made signs of sorrow: I was put to shame, truly, I was covered with shame, because I had to undergo the shame of my early years.

  • Jer 31:9
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    9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.

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    5 For you are my hope, O Lord God; I have had faith in you from the time when I was young.

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    9 For this reason, I will again put forward my cause against you, says the Lord, even against you and against your children's children.

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    17 O God, you have been my teacher from the time when I was young; and I have been talking of your works of wonder even till now.

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    24 Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

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    10 When my father and my mother are turned away from me, then the Lord will be my support.

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    17 Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

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    8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

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    23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.

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    18 Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

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