Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Jeremiah 3:4
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Jeremiah3:4
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" (Jr 2:27; Lu 15:18).
thou art--rather, "thou wast."
guide of ... youth--that is, husband (Jr 2:2; Pr 2:17; Ho 2:7, 15). Husband and father are the two most endearing of ties.
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