Jeremiah 3:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Psalm 119:9

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

Psalm 48:14

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

Psalm 71:17

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

Psalm 71:5

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

Proverbs 1:4

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

Proverbs 2:17

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

Jeremiah 2:2

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.

Jeremiah 2:27

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.

Jeremiah 3:19

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.

Jeremiah 31:22

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

Jeremiah 31:9

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 favourite children.

Hosea 2:15

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.

Malachi 1:6

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?”

Malachi 2:14

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.