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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 3:4 - 3:4
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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” (Jer 2:27; Luk 15:18).
thou art - rather, “thou wast.”
guide of ... youth - that is, husband (Jer 2:2; Pro 2:17; Hos 2:7, Hos 2:15). Husband and father are the two most endearing of ties.