Jeremiah 3:4

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Jer 2:2 : 2 "Go, and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh, "I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
  • Jer 3:19 : 19 "But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
  • Ps 71:17 : 17 God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
  • Hos 2:15 : 15 I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
  • Prov 2:17 : 17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
  • Hos 14:1-3 : 1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin. 2 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls. 3 Assyria can't save us. We won't ride on horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, 'Our gods!' for in you the fatherless finds mercy."
  • Mal 2:14 : 14 Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
  • Ps 119:9 : 9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
  • Prov 1:4 : 4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
  • Ps 48:14 : 14 For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.
  • Ps 71:5 : 5 For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.
  • Jer 31:18-20 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth. 20 Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a darling child? for as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, says Yahweh.
  • Jer 2:27 : 27 who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise, and save us.'

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  • Jer 3:19-20
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    19"But I said, 'How I would put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations!' and I said, 'You shall call me "My Father," and shall not turn away from following me.'

    20"Surely as a wife treacherously departs from her husband, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," says Yahweh.

  • Jer 3:3
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    3Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute's forehead, you refused to be ashamed.

  • Deut 32:6-7
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    6Do you thus requite Yahweh, foolish people and unwise? Isn't he your father who has bought you? He has made you, and established you.

    7Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.

  • Job 31:18
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    18(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

  • Jer 3:5
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    5"'Will he retain [his anger] forever? Will he keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."

  • Jer 22:21
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    21I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.

  • Ps 89:26
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    26He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!'

  • Prov 4:1
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    1Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

  • Prov 4:3
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    3For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

  • Job 13:26
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    26For you write bitter things against me, and make me inherit the iniquities of my youth:

  • Isa 63:15-16
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    15Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory: where are your zeal and your mighty acts? the yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

    16For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn't know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us: you, Yahweh, are our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.

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    27Your first father sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against me.

  • Ps 39:12
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    12"Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don't be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.

  • Jer 2:27
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    27who tell wood, 'You are my father;' and a stone, 'You have brought me out:' for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, 'Arise, and save us.'

  • Jer 31:18-19
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    18I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.

    19Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I struck on my thigh: I was ashamed, yes, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.

  • Jer 31:9
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    9They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

  • Ezek 16:43
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    43Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have raged against me in all these things; therefore, behold, I also will bring your way on your head, says the Lord Yahweh: and you shall not commit this lewdness with all your abominations.

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    5For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.

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    31Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'

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    9"Therefore I will yet contend with you," says Yahweh, "and I will contend with your children's children.

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    11I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

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    17God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.

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    28and didn't allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now have you done foolishly.

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    16As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you; neither have I desired the woeful day; you know: that which came out of my lips was before your face.

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    24Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

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    10When my father and my mother forsake me, then Yahweh will take me up.

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    3For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

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    11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

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    5You shall consider in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahweh your God chastens you.

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    3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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    25but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

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    18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

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    17"Haven't you procured this to yourself, in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, when he led you by the way?

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    8My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

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    23Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

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    8Yes, you didn't hear; yes, you didn't know; yes, from of old your ear was not opened: for I knew that you did deal very treacherously, and was called a transgressor from the womb.

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    18"Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart."

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    4If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

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    24You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

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