Parallel Verses
King James Version
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? 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.
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.
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.
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, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. 33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 106:21
They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
Isaiah 17:10
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
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.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and buildeth temples; and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
Isaiah 61:10
I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
Jeremiah 13:25
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
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;
Genesis 24:22
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;
Genesis 24:30
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
Genesis 24:53
And the servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and gave them to Rebekah: he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things.
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.
Psalm 9:17
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Psalm 45:13-14
The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
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.
Jeremiah 13:10
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.
Ezekiel 16:10-13
I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
Ezekiel 22:12
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
1 Peter 3:3-5
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Revelation 21:2
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.