4Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
4Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
1 They say, If a man shall put away his wife, and she shall go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to 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.
2 Lift up thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy acts of lewdness, and with thy wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withheld, and there hath been no latter rain? and thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.
4 Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
5 Will he retain his anger for ever? will he keep it to the end? Behold, thou hast spoken and done evil things as thou couldst.
6 The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she hath gone up upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.
3:4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
3:4Have you not just called to me: 'My Father, my friend from my youth,
3:4Therefore at least at this time call to me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity:
3:4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?
3:4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
3:4Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
3:4Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
3:4Hast thou not henceforth called to Me, 'My father, Thou art the leader of my youth?
3:4Will you not from this time cry to me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?