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.e., the twelfth of Josiah: it means-Wilt thou not, now at once, now at last?
Me - contrasted with the "stock" whom they had heretofore called on as "father" (Luke 15:18).
Thou art - rather, 'thou wast.'
Guide of my youth - i:e., husband (Jeremiah 2:2; Proverbs 2:17, "Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;" Hosea 2:7; Hosea 2:15). Husband and father are the two most endearing of ties.