for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, , knowledge and discretion to a young man –
Jeremiah 3:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Haven’t you recently called to me, ‘My Father! You were my friend in my youth. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Have you not just now cried to Me: My Father, You were the guide and companion of my youth? American Standard Version (1901) Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth? Common English Bible At the same time you say to me, “My father, my friend since youth, Catholic Public Domain Version Therefore, at least from this moment on, call out to me: 'You are my father, the guide of my virginity.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore, at least from this time call to me: Thou art my father, the guide of my virginity: |
for teaching shrewdness to the inexperienced, , knowledge and discretion to a young man –
who abandons the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
‘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.
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! ’
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.’
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.
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.
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.
‘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? ’
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.