Jeremiah 2:32

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

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BSBPD

“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 · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Jeremiah 2:32 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 24:22And 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.
  2. Genesis 24:30As 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.
  3. Genesis 24:53Then he brought out jewels of silver and gold, and articles of clothing, and he gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious gifts to her brother and her mother.
  4. Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked— becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
  5. Judges 8:34The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
  6. 2 Samuel 1:24O daughters of Israel, weep for Saul, who clothed you in scarlet and luxury, who decked your garments with ornaments of gold.
  7. Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
  8. Psalms 45:13All glorious is the princess in her chamber; her gown is embroidered with gold.
  9. Psalms 106:21They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
  10. Isaiah 17:10For 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—
  11. Isaiah 61:10I 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 herself with her jewels.
  12. Jeremiah 2:11Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
  13. Jeremiah 3:21A 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.
  14. Jeremiah 13:10These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.
  15. Jeremiah 13:25This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
  16. Jeremiah 18:15Yet 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.
  17. Jeremiah 23:27They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.
  18. Ezekiel 16:10I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
  19. Ezekiel 22:12In you they take bribes to shed blood. You engage in usury, take excess interest, and extort your neighbors. But Me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.
  20. Hosea 8:14Israel 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.
  21. 1 Peter 3:3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair or gold jewelry or fine clothes,
  22. Revelation 21:2I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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