Parallel Verses
Amplified
“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.
New American Standard Bible
Or a bride her attire?
Yet My people have
Days without number.
King James Version
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Holman Bible
or a bride her wedding sash?
Yet My people have forgotten Me
for countless days.
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.
A Conservative Version
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me 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.
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.
Darby Translation
Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.
Julia Smith Translation
Will a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her girdles? and my people forgat me days of no numbering.
King James 2000
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Can a young woman forget her ornaments? [Or] a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Modern King James verseion
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Doth a maiden forget her raiment, or a bride her stomacher? But as for my people, they have forgotten me for days innumerable.
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 Heart English Bible
"Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
The Emphasized Bible
Can, a virgin, forget, her ornaments, - A bride, her girdle? Yet, my people, have forgotten me, days without number.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.
Themes
Adorning » Rich apparel » Ornaments, wearing of
Forgetting God » Backsliders guilty of
Ornaments » Rich apparel » Ornaments, wearing of
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deserves To Be Punished
31
“O generation [that you are], consider and regard carefully the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel [like a land without food],
A land of thick and deep darkness [like a path without light]?
Why do My people say, ‘We [have broken loose and we] are free to roam [at will];
We will no longer come to You’?
“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.
“How well you prepare your path
To seek and obtain [adulterous] love!
Even the most wicked of women
Have learned [indecent] ways from you.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 106:21
They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done such great things in Egypt,
Isaiah 17:10
Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Therefore you plant
And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,
Jeremiah 3:21
A voice is heard on the barren heights,
The weeping and pleading of the children of Israel,
Because they have lost their way,
They have [deliberately] forgotten the Lord their God.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces [and pagan temples],
And Judah has built many fortified cities;
But I will send a fire upon their cities so that it may consume their palaces and fortresses.
Isaiah 61:10
I will rejoice greatly in the Lord,
My soul will exult in my God;
For He has clothed me with garments of salvation,
He has covered me with a robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom puts on a
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Jeremiah 13:25
“This is your destiny, the portion [of judgment] measured to you
From Me,” says the Lord,
“Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in [pagan] lies [the counterfeit gods, and the pretense of alliance].”
Jeremiah 18:15
‘Yet My people have forgotten Me;
They burn incense to worthless gods,
They have stumbled from their ways
From the ancient roads,
To walk in pathways,
Not on a highway,
Genesis 24:22
When the camels had finished drinking, Eliezer took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her hands weighing ten shekels in gold,
Genesis 24:30
When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and when he heard Rebekah his sister, saying, “The man said this to me,” he went to Eliezer and found him standing by the camels at the spring.
Genesis 24:53
Then the servant brought out jewelry of silver, jewelry of gold, and articles of clothing, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.
2 Samuel 1:24
“O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
Who clothed you
Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
Psalm 9:17
The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.
Psalm 45:13-14
Glorious is the King’s daughter within [the palace];
Her robe is interwoven with gold.
Jeremiah 2:11
“Has a nation [ever] changed gods
Even though they were not gods [but merely man-made objects]?
But My people have exchanged their Glory (the true God)
For that [man-made idol] which does not benefit [them].
Jeremiah 13:10
These wicked and malevolent people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubborn way of their heart and have followed other gods [which are nothing—just man-made carvings] to serve them and to worship them, let them be just like this waistband which is completely worthless.
Ezekiel 16:10-13
I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have accepted bribes to shed blood; you have taken [forbidden] interest and [a percentage of] profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression and extortion, and you have forgotten Me,” says the Lord God.
1 Peter 3:3-5
Your adornment must not be merely external—with interweaving and elaborate knotting of the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or [being superficially preoccupied with] dressing in expensive clothes;
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, arrayed like a bride adorned for her husband;