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Jeremiah 3:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Haven’t you recently called to me, ‘My Father! You were my friend in my youth.

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‘Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says: I remember the loyalty of your youth, your love as a bride – how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.


I thought, ‘How I long to make you my sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance  of all the nations.’ I thought, ‘You will call me “My Father” and never turn away from me.’


There I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor  , into a gateway of hope. There she will respond as she did in the days of her youth, as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.


They will come weeping, but I will bring them back with consolation.  , I will lead them to wadis filled with water, by a smooth way where they will not stumble, for I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is my firstborn.


who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;


And you ask, ‘Why? ’ Because even though the Lord has been a witness  between you and the wife of your youth,  you have acted treacherously against her. She was your marriage partner  and your wife by covenant.


say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ For they have turned their back to me and not their face, yet in their time of disaster  they beg, ‘Rise up and save us! ’


for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced,  , knowledge and discretion  to a young man –


‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me?  says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’ Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’


How long will you turn here and there, faithless daughter? For the Lord creates something new in the land   – a female  will shelter  a man.





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