Jeremiah 2:32
New International Version
Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

New Living Translation
Does a young woman forget her jewelry, or a bride her wedding dress? Yet for years on end my people have forgotten me.

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

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

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

New King James Version
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

New American Standard Bible
“Can a virgin forget her jewelry, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me For days without number.

NASB 1995
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.

NASB 1977
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.

Legacy Standard Bible
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.

Amplified Bible
“Can a virgin forget [to wear] her ornaments, Or a bride her attire [that identifies her as a married woman]? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.

Christian Standard Bible
Can a young woman forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet my people have forgotten me for countless days.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Can a young woman forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for countless days.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Does a virgin forget her daintiness, or a bride her bridal gown? But my people have forgotten me days without number

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Will a bride forget her ornaments, or a virgin her girdle? but my people has forgotten me days without number.

Contemporary English Version
A bride could not forget to wear her jewelry to her wedding, but you have forgotten me day after day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me days without number.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A young woman can't forget her jewelry or a bride her veils. Yet, my people have forgotten me for countless days.

Good News Translation
Does a young woman forget her jewelry, or a bride her wedding dress? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can be counted.

International Standard Version
Will a young woman forget her wedding ornaments, or a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Can a maid forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me Days without number.

Literal Standard Version
Does a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me [for] days without number.

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

New American Bible
Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her sash? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

NET Bible
Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels? Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can even be counted.

New Revised Standard Version
Can a girl forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

New Heart English Bible
"Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

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

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Israel's Unfaithfulness
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’? 32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number. 33How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.…

Cross References
Psalm 106:21
They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

Isaiah 17:10
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--

Isaiah 57:11
Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lied and failed to remember Me or take this to heart? Is it not because I have long been silent that you do not fear Me?

Jeremiah 2:33
How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

Jeremiah 3:21
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.

Jeremiah 13:25
This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you," declares the LORD, "because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.

Jeremiah 18:15
Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.


Treasury of Scripture

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

a maid

Jeremiah 2:11
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit.

Genesis 24:22,30,53
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold; …

2 Samuel 1:24
Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

yet my people

Jeremiah 3:21
A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

Jeremiah 13:10,25
This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing…

Jeremiah 18:15
Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

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Jeremiah 2
1. God having shown his former kindness,
5. expostulates with the people on their causeless and unexampled revolt
14. They are the causes of their own calamities
18. The sins and idolatries of Judah
35. Her confidence is rejected.














(32) Or a bride her attire.--The word is rendered "headbands" in Isaiah 3:20, but here it probably means the "girdle" which formed the special distinction of the wife as contrasted with the maiden. Such a girdle, like the marriage ring with us, would be treasured by the bride all her life long. Even the outward memorial of her union with her husband would be dear to her. But Israel had forgotten her lord and husband Himself.

Verse 32. - Or a bride her attire. The prophet perhaps means the magnificently adorned girdle which the bride wore on her wedding day (comp. Isaiah 49:18). But the word only occurs again in Isaiah 3:20, and its precise signification is uncertain.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Does a maiden
בְּתוּלָה֙ (bə·ṯū·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1330: A virgin, sometimes, a bride

forget
הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח (hă·ṯiš·kaḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

her jewelry
עֶדְיָ֔הּ (‘eḏ·yāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 5716: Finery, an outfit, a headstall

or a bride
כַּלָּ֖ה (kal·lāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3618: Daughter-in-law, bride

her wedding sash?
קִשֻּׁרֶ֑יהָ (qiš·šu·re·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 7196: Bands, sashes

Yet My people
וְעַמִּ֣י (wə·‘am·mî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

have forgotten Me
שְׁכֵח֔וּנִי (šə·ḵê·ḥū·nî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | first person common singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

for days
יָמִ֖ים (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

without
אֵ֥ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

number.
מִסְפָּֽר׃ (mis·pār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4557: A number, definite, indefinite, narration


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