Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
From the time didst thou not call to me, My father, thou the friend of my youth?
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Holman Bible
You were my friend in my youth.
International Standard Version
Have you not just called out to me, "My father, you are the friend of my youth
American Standard Version
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?
Amplified
“Will you not just now call out to Me,
‘My Father, you were the guide and companion 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?
Darby Translation
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
King James 2000
Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Have you not just now called to me, 'My father, you [are] the close friend of my youth?
Modern King James verseion
Will you not from this time cry to Me, My father, You are the guide of my youth?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Else wouldst thou say unto me, 'O my father, thou art he that hast brought me up, and led me from my youth:
NET Bible
Even now you say to me, 'You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.
New Heart English Bible
Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
The Emphasized Bible
Hast thou not from this time, cried unto me, My father! the friend of my youth, art, thou?
Webster
Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
World English Bible
Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
Youngs Literal Translation
Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 19 Translations in Jeremiah 3:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unfaithfulness Of Contemporary Israel
3 And the showers will be withheld, and the latter rain was not; and the forehead of a woman a harlot was to thee, and thou refusedst to be ashamed. 4 From the time didst thou not call to me, My father, thou the friend of my youth? 5 Will he guard forever? if he will watch to the end? Behold, I spake, and wilt thou do evil, and shalt thou be able?
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and call in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah, I remembered for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy completion, thy going after me in the desert in a land not, sown.
Jeremiah 3:19
And I said, How shall I place thee among the sons, and I will give to thee a land of desire, an inheritance of glory of the armies of nations? And saying, Ye shall call to me, My father; and ye shall rot turn back from after me.
Psalm 71:17
O God, thou didst teach me from my youth: and even to this will I announce thy wonders.
Proverbs 2:17
Forsaking the friend of her youth, and forgetting the covenant of her God.
Jeremiah 31:9
In weeping will they come, and I will lead them in mercies; I will cause them to go to the streams of waters in a straight way; they shall not stumble in it: for I was to Israel for a father, and Ephraim he is my first-born.
Hosea 2:15
And I gave to her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she was humbled there as the days of her youth and as the days of her coming up out of the land of Egypt
Psalm 48:14
For this God is our God forever and ever: he will guide us to death.
Psalm 71:5
For thou my hope, O Lord Jehovah: my trust from my youth.
Psalm 119:9
In what shall a youth cleanse his way? To watch according to thy word.
Proverbs 1:4
To give craftiness to the simple, and to the youth, knowledge and meditation.
Jeremiah 2:27
Saying to the wood, Thou my father; and to the stone, Thou didst bring me forth: for they turned to me the back of the neck and not their face: and in the time of their evil they will say, Arise, and save us.
Jeremiah 31:18-20
Hearing, I heard Ephraim being thrust away: Thou didst correct me, and I shall be corrected as a calf not being taught: turn me back and I shall be turned back, for thou Jehovah my God.
Hosea 14:1-3
Turn back, O Israel, even to Jehovah thy God, for thou wert weak in thine iniquity.
Malachi 2:14
And ye said, For what? For that Jehovah testified between thee and between the wife of thy youth, which thou didst deal faithlessly against her, and she thy companion and the wife of thy covenant