Jeremiah 2:32

Jeremiah 2:32 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
• New International Version (NIV)Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.

Context of Jeremiah 2:32

30“I have punished your children without results. They didn’t respond to correction. You killed my prophets like a raging lion. 31“Consider the Lord’s word, people of this generation. Haven’t I been a desert, a land of thick darkness, for Israel? Why do my people say that they are free to wander around and no longer come to me? A young woman can’t forget her jewelry or a bride her veils. Yet, my people have forgotten me for countless days. 33You carefully planned ways to look for love. You taught your ways to wicked women. 34You have the blood from poor and innocent people on your clothes. You didn’t kill them for breaking into your home.

Jeremiah 2:32 word by word

הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח בְּתוּלָה֙ עֶדְיָ֔הּ כַּלָּ֖ה קִשֻּׁרֶ֑יהָ וְעַמִּ֣י שְׁכֵח֔וּנִי יָמִ֖ים אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Can a maidבְּתוּלָהbethûlâh · virginH1330
• forgetשָׁכַחshâkach shâkêach · to forgetH7911
• her ornamentsעֲדִי‛ădîy · ornamentH5716
• a brideכַּלָּהkallâh · daughter-in-law: brideH3618
• her attireקִשֻּׁרִיםqishshûr · sashH7196
• yet my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
• me daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• without numberמִסְפָּרmispâr · numberH4557

Cross-references for Jeremiah 2:32

• Jeremiah 2:11Has any nation ever exchanged gods? (Their gods aren’t really gods.) Yet, my people have exchanged their Glory for something that doesn’t help them.
• Genesis 24:22When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a fifth of an ounce and two gold bracelets weighing four ounces.
• 2 Samuel 1:24Daughters of Israel, cry over Saul, who dressed you in decorated, red clothes, who put gold jewelry on your clothes.
• Psalms 45:13The daughter of the king is glorious inside ⌞the palace⌟. Her dress is embroidered with gold.
• Isaiah 61:10I will find joy in the Lord. I will delight in my God. He has dressed me in the clothes of salvation. He has wrapped me in the robe of righteousness like a bridegroom with a priest’s turban, like a bride with her jewels.
• Ezekiel 16:10I put an embroidered dress on you and fine leather sandals on your feet. I dressed you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
• 1 Peter 3:3Wives must not let their beauty be something external. Beauty doesn’t come from hairstyles, gold jewelry, or clothes.
• Revelation 21:2Then I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, dressed like a bride ready for her husband.
• Jeremiah 3:21The sound of crying is heard on the hills. It is the crying and the pleading of the people of Israel. They have become crooked and have forgotten the Lord their God.
• Jeremiah 13:10These wicked people refuse to listen to me. They go their own stubborn ways and follow other gods in order to serve them and worship them. They are like this good-for-nothing belt.
• Jeremiah 18:15But my people have forgotten me. They burn incense as an offering to worthless idols, and they stumble along the way, on the ancient path. They go on side roads and not on major highways.
• Psalms 9:17Wicked people, all the nations who forget God, will return to the grave.
• Psalms 106:21They forgot God, their savior, the one who did spectacular things in Egypt,
• Isaiah 17:10You have forgotten the God of your salvation. You haven’t remembered the rock, your stronghold. Instead, you have planted the best plants and have set out the imported grapevines.
• Ezekiel 22:12Other people take bribes to murder people. You collect interest and make excessive profits. You make profits by mistreating your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Almighty Lord.
• Hosea 8:14The people of Israel have built palaces, and they have forgotten their maker. The people of Judah have built many fortified cities. I will send a fire on their cities and burn down their palaces.”

Commentaries on Jeremiah 2:32

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32Can a maid forget her ornaments - This people has not so much attachment to me as young females have to their dress and ornaments. They never forget them and even when arrived at old age, look with pleasure on the dress and ornaments which they have worn in their youth. Days without number - That is, for many years; during the whole reign of Manasses, which was fifty-five years, the land was deluged with idolatry, from which the reform by good King Josiah…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 32A bride treasures all her life the girdle, which first indicated that she was a married woman, just as brides now treasure the wedding ring; but Israel, Yahweh‘s bride Jeremiah 2:2, cherishes no fond memorials of past affection.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 29-37Verses 29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Here is the language of presumptuous sinners. The Jews had long thrown off serious thoughts of God. How many days of our lives pass without suitable remembrance of him!…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 32For centuries, the Israelites had forgotten the Lord, who was like their husband (Jeremiah 13:25; Psalm 106:21; Hosea 8:14).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3232. Oriental women greatly pride themselves on their ornaments (compare Is 61:10). attire--girdles for the breast. forgotten me--(Jr 13:25; Ho 8:14).Read the comment

Topics related to Jeremiah 2:32

• Backsliders
• Bride
• Church
• Forgetting God
• Godlessness
• Marriage
• Women

In the dictionaries

• Attire
• Bitter
• Cry
• Degenerate
• Handle
• Headbands
• Hold
• Holiness
• Noble
• Ornament

Commentaries on Jeremiah 2

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings