Jeremiah 3:4

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" (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.