How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Jeremiah 3:4 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Will you not from this time cry to me, My Father, you are the guide of 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: |
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
For this God is our God forever and ever. He will be our guide even to death.
God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
Go, and cry in the ears of Yerushalayim, saying, Thus says the LORD, I remember for you the kindness of your youth, the love of your weddings; how you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
But I said, How I will put you among the children, and give you a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the armies of the nations! and I said, You shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.
How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for the LORD has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.
They shall come with weeping; and with petitions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they shall not stumble; for I am a father to Yisra'el, and Efrayim is my firstborn.
I will give her vineyards from there, and the valley of `Akhor for a door of hope; and she will respond there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
*A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says the LORD of Armies to you, Kohanim, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
Yet you say, 'Why?' Because the LORD has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.