Albert Barnes Commentary Jeremiah 3:4

"Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?" — Jeremiah 3:4 (ASV)

Or, have you not from this time called me, My Father, thou art the husband of my youth? That is, from the time of Josiah’s reforms in his eighteenth year, in opposition to of old time (Jeremiah 2:20).