Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Jeremiah 3:4

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4. from this time —not referring, as MICHAELIS thinks, to the reformation begun the year before, that is, the twelfth of Josiah; it means—now at once, now at last. me —contrasted with the "stock" whom they had heretofore called on as "father" ( Jeremiah 2:27 ; Luke 15:18 ). thou art —rather, "thou wast." guide of . . . youth —that is, husband ( Jeremiah 2:2 ; Proverbs 2:17 ; Hosea 2:7 ; Hosea 2:15 ). Husband and father are the two most endearing of ties. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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절 (explains)

bible-text/jer-3-4

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