World English Bible
"Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'"
— Jeremiah 3:4, World English Bible
“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? ”
“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 puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says Yahweh.
"Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been lain with? You have sat for them by the ways, as an Arabian in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there has been no latter rain; yet you have a prostitute'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 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."
Moreover, Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, "Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
I said after she had done all these things, 'She will return to me;' but she didn't return; and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.