Jeremiah 2:32 “Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My p…”

Jeremiah 2:32

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

World English Bible

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

American Standard Version

Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

Geneva Bible 1599

Can a maid forget her ornament, or a bride her attire? yet my people haue forgotten me, daies without number.

Darby Translation

Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.

Young's Literal Translation

Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.

Bible in Basic English

Is it possible for a virgin to put out of her memory her ornaments, or a bride her robes? but my people have put me out of their memories for unnumbered days.

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Cross references

“a maid”

Jeremiah 2:11 Isaiah 61:10 Genesis 24:22 1 Peter 3:3–5 Revelation 21:2 Genesis 24:30

Jeremiah 2:11 · BSB

Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Isaiah 61:10 · BSB

I will rejoice greatly in the LORD, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom wears a priestly headdress, as a bride adorns…

Genesis 24:22 · BSB

And after the camels had finished drinking, he took out a gold ring weighing a beka, and two gold bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels.

1 Peter 3:3–5 · BSB

Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,

Revelation 21:2 · BSB

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Genesis 24:30 · BSB

As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.

“yet my people”

Psalm 106:21 Jeremiah 13:25 Jeremiah 3:21 Isaiah 17:10 Psalm 9:17 Hosea 8:14

Psalm 106:21 · BSB

They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

Jeremiah 13:25 · BSB

This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

Jeremiah 3:21 · BSB

A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

Isaiah 17:10 · BSB

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—

Psalm 9:17 · BSB

The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.

Hosea 8:14 · BSB

Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

31You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

33How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

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