Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
Or a bride her attire?
Yet My people have forgotten Me
Days without number.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Can a young woman forget her jewelry
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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Can a maid
בּתוּלה 
B@thuwlah 
Usage: 50

שׁכח שׁכח 
Shakach 
Usage: 102

עדי 
`adiy 
Usage: 14

or a bride
כּלּה 
Kallah 
Usage: 34

קשּׁר 
Qishshur 
Usage: 2

yet my people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

שׁכח שׁכח 
Shakach 
Usage: 102

me days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

Israel Deserves To Be Punished

31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel, or a land of thick darkness? Why then do my people say, 'We are free, we will come no more to you'? 32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
Or a bride her attire?
Yet My people have forgotten Me
Days without number.
33 "How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

Cross References

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, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the LORD their God.

Hosea 8:14

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Jeremiah 13:25

This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, declares the LORD, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

Jeremiah 18:15

But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway,

Genesis 24:22

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

Genesis 24:30

As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

Genesis 24:53

And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.

2 Samuel 1:24

"You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Psalm 45:13-14

All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods, even though they are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own heart and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.

Ezekiel 16:10-13

I clothed you also with embroidered cloth and shod you with fine leather. I wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you they take bribes to shed blood; you take interest and profit and make gain of your neighbors by extortion; but me you have forgotten, declares the Lord GOD.

1 Peter 3:3-5

Do not let your adorning be external--the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear--

Revelation 21:2

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

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