Jeremiah 3:4

Verse 4 of 25. The 3rd of 52 chapters in Jeremiah, in The Major Prophets.

1They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord.

2Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

3Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

5Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldest.

6The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

7And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

8And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also.

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Jeremiah 3:4 in the World English Bible

Will you not from this time cry to me, ‘My Father, you are the guide of my youth!’?
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Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:4

He therefore kindly expects that they will repent and return to him, and he directs them what to say to him (v. 4): "Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me? Wilt not thou, who hast been in such relation to me, and on whom I have laid such obligations, wilt not thou cry to me?

Read Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:1–5: The Wickedness of Israel. (b. c. 620.)

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.