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Jeremiah 3:4

Contemporary English Version 1995

You call me your father or your long-lost friend;

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to go to Jerusalem and tell everyone that he had said: When you were my young bride, you loved me and followed me through the barren desert.

I have always wanted to treat you as my children and give you the best land, the most beautiful on earth. I wanted you to call me “Father” and not turn from me.

I will return your vineyards, and then Trouble Valley will become Hopeful Valley. You will say “Yes” to me as you did in your youth, when leaving Egypt.

They will weep and pray as I bring them home. I will lead them to streams of water. They will walk on a level road and not stumble. I am a father to Israel, my favorite children.

who breaks her wedding vows and leaves the man she married when she was young.

You have taught me since I was a child, and I never stop telling about your marvelous deeds.

And why isn't God pleased? It's because he knows that each of you men has been unfaithful to the wife you married when you were young. You promised that she would be your partner, but now you have broken that promise.

worship stone idols and sacred poles as if they had created you and had given you life. You have rejected me, but when you're in trouble, you cry to me for help.

From these, an ordinary person can learn to be smart, and young people can gain knowledge and good sense.

Young people can live a clean life by obeying your word.

I depend on you, and I have trusted you since I was young.

“Our God is like this forever and will always guide us.”

I, the Lord All-Powerful, have something to say to you priests. Children respect their fathers, and servants respect their masters. I am your father and your master, so why don't you respect me? You priests have insulted me, and now you ask, “How did we insult you?”

Will you ever decide to be faithful? I will make sure that someday things will be different, as different as a woman protecting a man.




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