Jeremiah 2:32
What does Jeremiah 2:32 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 2:32 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Is 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me days without number.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.
Context
v.31O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?
v.32This passage
v.33How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 9:17
The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
- Psalms 106:21
They forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,
- Jeremiah 18:15
For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false gods; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in bypaths, in a way not cast up;
- 1 Peter 3:3
Whoseadorninglet it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel;
- Hosea 8:14
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.
- Genesis 24:22
And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,
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