4Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
4Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
1 |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.
2 |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.
3 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.
4 Will you not from this time cry to me, 'My Father, you are the guide of my youth?'
5 |'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.|
6 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.
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?
3:4Wilt thou not from this time cry to me, My father, thou art 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?