American King James Version
"Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth? "
— Jeremiah 3:4, American King James Version
“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?”
“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth? ”
“Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'”
“Even now you say to me,‘You are my father! You have been my faithful companion ever since I was young.”
“Therefore at the least from this time call to me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity:”
“Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?”
“Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?”
They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, shall he return to her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.
Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see where you have not been lien with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitutions and with your wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; and you had a whore’s forehead, you refused to be ashamed.
Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?
Will he reserve his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, you have spoken and done evil things as you could. ¶
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
And I said after she had done all these things, Turn you to me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it.