Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

A maid

Jeremiah 2:11
“Has a nation changed gods
When they were not gods?
But My people have changed their glory
For that which does not profit.
Genesis 24:22
When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,
2 Samuel 1:24
“O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
Who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet,
Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
Psalm 45:13
The King’s daughter is all glorious within;
Her clothing is interwoven with gold.
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 wrapped me with a robe of righteousness,
As a bridegroom decks himself with a garland,
And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Ezekiel 16:10
I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
1 Peter 3:3
Your adornment must not be merely external—braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses;
Revelation 21:2
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

Yet my people

Jeremiah 3:21
A voice is heard on the bare heights,
The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel;
Because they have perverted their way,
They have forgotten the Lord their God.
Jeremiah 13:10
This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.
Jeremiah 18:15
‘For My people have forgotten Me,
They burn incense to worthless gods
And they have stumbled from their ways,
From the ancient paths,
To walk in bypaths,
Not on a highway,
Psalm 9:17
The wicked will return to Sheol,
Even all the nations who forget God.
Psalm 106:21
They forgot God their Savior,
Who had done great things in Egypt,
Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.
Ezekiel 22:12
In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares the Lord God.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

General references

2 Samuel 1:24
“O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
Who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet,
Who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.
Psalm 78:11
They forgot His deeds
And His miracles that He had shown them.