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Jeremiah 3:4
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me, My Father, Thou art the Guide of my youth!? She uses the endearing term "Companion of my youth," in speaking to the Lord, as though to win Him back.
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto Me, My Father, Thou art the Guide of my youth!? She uses the endearing term "Companion of my youth," in speaking to the Lord, as though to win Him back.
Verse Jeremiah 3:4. _WILT THOU NOT - CRY UNTO ME, MY FATHER_] Wilt thou not allow me to be thy Creator and Preserver, and cease thus to acknowledge idols? See on Jeremiah 2:27....
Or, Hast thou Not from this time called “me, My Father, thou art the” husband “of my youth?” i. e., from the time of Josiah’s reforms in his eighteenth year, in opposition to “of old time” Jeremiah 2:...
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
ISRAEL'S INFIDELITY. (Some introductory formula, like that of Jeremiah 2:1, has dropped out before Jeremiah 3:1; note _mg.)._ Israel's marital unfaithfulness to Yahweh is too gross for a facile repent...
GUIDE. Friend....
_Wilt thou not from this time cry_ HAST THOU NOT BUT NOW CRIED. Judah, at the very time that she is deserting Jehovah, is using to Him the language of wheedling affection. _guide_ mg. _companion_. Th...
II. GOD'S APPEAL To HIS PEOPLE Jeremiah 3:1 to Jeremiah 4:4 After the blistering indictment of his inaugural sermon Jeremiah takes up the subject of repentance. He speaks here of (1) the possibility o...
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth? WILT THOU NOT FROM THIS TIME - not referring, as Michaelis thinks, to the reformation begun the year before, i...
CIRCUMCISE] Circumcision was a dedication of self to God's service, and a removal of imperfections....
THE PROPHET SETS FORTH THE SIN OF THE NATION AND POINTS OUT THE INEVITABLE RESULT (REIGN OF JOSIAH, AND PROBABLY BEFORE THE REFORMS OF THAT KING: CP. JEREMIAH 3:6) This section furnishes us with the g...
WILT THOU NOT FROM THIS TIME CRY UNTO ME...? — Better, _Hast thou not from this time cried unto me...?_ The prophet paints with a stern irony the parade of the surface repentance of Josiah’s reign. Th...
הֲ לֹ֣וא מֵ עַ֔תָּה _קָרָ֥את_† לִ֖י אָבִ֑י...
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menac...
Following the impeachment, the prophet appealed to the people to return. This appeal commenced with a declaration that Jehovah's love was greater than man's in that He was willing to receive back the...
Wilt thou not from this time cry (h) to me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth? (h) He shows that the wicked in their miseries will cry to God and use outward prayer as the godly do, but bec...
_Guide. Husband, Proverbs ii. 16., and Joel i. 8._...
This is a most beautiful and gracious observation of the Lord's, to show, what might be reasonably expected, from the overwhelming kindness of the Lord. When grace becomes more abundant, it overpowers...
God, after having set forth the wickedness of his people, and severely reproved them as they deserved, now kindly invites them to repentance, _Wilt thou not say to me hereafter, _he says, _My Father!...
Chapter 3 has the same character; indeed it is the continuation of the same address; but it contains details of Israel's and Judah's behaviour, and proclaims the restoration of Israel by sovereign goo...
WILT THOU NOT FROM THIS TIME CRY UNTO ME,.... These words are either a confirmation and proof of that impudence with which these people are charged; for had they not been impudent, or had not a forehe...
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou [art] the guide of my youth? Ver. 4. _Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me?_] And is not this extreme impudence? Hast thou a face thus to...
_Wilt thou not from this time_ Namely, that I have withholden showers, this time of conviction and correction; now that thou hast been made to see thy sins, and to smart for them, wilt thou not forsak...
1-5 In repentance, it is good to think upon the sins of which we have been guilty, and the places and companies where they have been committed. How gently the Lord had corrected them! In receiving pe...
WILT THOU NOT FROM THIS TIME, viz. that I have withholden showers? Some refer this, 1. To the time to come; Wilt thou not yet be wise, and for the future seek to me, having found all thy other ways s...
Jeremiah 3:4 cry H7121 (H8804) father H1 guide H441 youth H5271 Wilt thou - Jeremiah 3:19,...
YHWH LAYS DOWN HIS FINAL TERMS (JEREMIAH 3:1). The latter rains have failed to come because they have been faithless to YHWH, something that is evident to anyone who will look to the bare hills or the...
In this chapter, the sin of God's people is put in the strongest possible light. The figure used may be even said to be a coarse one, but man's sin is itself a coarse thing. The thoughts suggested in...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's message concerning the impenitence of Judah. Encouragement to backsliders to return and repent. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Those will justly be divorced from God tha...
Jeremiah 3:3. _Therefore the showers,_ of the former and the latter rain, _have been withheld._ Other prophets make the same remark. God is not obliged to give luxuriant harvests to furnish feasts to...
_Return again to Me, saith the Lord._ THE BACKSLIDER INVITED TO RETURN We have here a wonderful display of God’s character: forbearance, pity, and love. I. What is inferred. A departure from God....
_Writ thou not from this time cry unto Me, My Father, Thou art the guide of my youth?_ THE DIVINE GUIDE We are all travellers, but are not all travelling in the tame direction. We need a guide. Ther...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—_1. Chronology._ Exact date of chapter uncertain. It naturally divides itself at Jeremiah 3:5, although Dahler, Umbriet, and Neuman contend for the unity of the chapter...
EXPOSITION That this chapter (to which the first four verses of Jeremiah 4:1. ought to have been attached) belongs to the time of Josiah seems to be proved by Jeremiah 3:6, and the years immediately f...
They say (Jeremiah 3:1), That is, in quoting the law and in speaking of the law, Deuteronomy. If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's wife, shall he return unto...
Hosea 14:1; Hosea 2:15; Jeremiah 2:2; Jeremiah 2:27; Jeremiah 3:19;...
My father — Wilt thou not as a child call upon me, whom thou hast thus greatly provoked. The guide — I have been brought up by thee....