Jeremiah 3:4

New Century Version

Now you are calling to me, ‘My father, you have been my friend since I was young.

Cross References

Psalm 119:9

How can a young person live a pure life? By obeying your word.

Psalm 48:14

This God is our God forever and ever. He will guide us from now on.

Psalm 71:17

God, you have taught me since I was young. To this day I tell about the miracles you do.

Psalm 71:5

Lord, you are my hope. Lord, I have trusted you since I was young.

Proverbs 1:4

They make the uneducated wise and give knowledge and sense to the young.

Proverbs 2:17

She leaves the husband she married when she was young. She ignores the promise she made before God.

Jeremiah 2:2

“Go and speak to the people of Jerusalem, saying: This is what the Lord says: ‘I remember how faithful you were to me when you were a young nation. You loved me like a young bride. You followed me through the desert, a land that had never been planted.

Jeremiah 2:27

They say to things of wood, ‘You are my father,’ and to idols of stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’ Those people won’t look at me; they have turned their backs to me. But when they get into trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’

Jeremiah 3:19

“I, the Lord, said, ‘How happy I would be to treat you as my own children and give you a pleasant land, a land more beautiful than that of any other nation.’ I thought you would call me ‘My Father’ and not turn away from me.

Jeremiah 31:22

You are an unfaithful daughter. How long will you wander before you come home? The Lord has made something new happen in the land: A woman will go seeking a man.”

Jeremiah 31:9

They will be crying as they come, but they will pray as I bring them back. I will lead those people by streams of water on an even road where they will not stumble. I am Israel’s father, and Israel is my firstborn son.

Hosea 2:15

There I will give her back her vineyards, and I will make the Valley of Trouble a door of hope. There she will respond as when she was young, as when she came out of Egypt.”

Malachi 1:6

The Lord All-Powerful says, “A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master.” I am a father, so why don’t you honor me? I am a master, so why don’t you respect me? You priests do not respect me. “But you ask, ‘How have we shown you disrespect?’

Malachi 2:14

You ask, “Why?” It is because the Lord sees how you treated the wife you married when you were young. You broke your promise to her, even though she was your partner and you had an agreement with her.