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 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? Why do my people say, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? 32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
Or a bride her attire?
Yet My people have forgotten Me
Days without number.
33 Why dost thou trim thy way to seek love? therefore thou hast also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

Cross References

Psalm 106:21

They forgot the God of their saving health, who had done great things in Egypt,

Isaiah 17:10

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy saving health and hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength; therefore thou shalt plant pleasant plants and set it with strange slips:

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping of the supplications of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.

Hosea 8:14

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and has built temples; and Judah has multiplied fenced cities; but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

Isaiah 61:10

I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of saving health; he has surrounded me with the robe of righteousness; as a bridegroom he has arrayed me, and as a bride made up of his jewels.

Jeremiah 13:25

This shall be thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me said the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

Jeremiah 18:15

Because my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not trodden;

Genesis 24:22

And it came to pass as the camels had finished drinking that the man took a golden pendant of half a shekel weight and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold

Genesis 24:30

And it came to pass when he saw the pendant and the bracelets upon his sister's hands, she said, Thus spoke the man unto me; then he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the fountain.

Genesis 24:53

And the slave brought forth vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.

2 Samuel 1:24

Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put ornaments of gold upon your apparel.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be put into Sheol, all the Gentiles that forget God.

Psalm 45:13-14

The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed their gods? Even though they are not gods. But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people that refuses to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart and went after other gods to serve them and to worship them shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

Ezekiel 16:10-13

I clothed thee also with broidered work and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I clothed thee with silk.

Ezekiel 22:12

In thee they have taken bribes to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion and hast forgotten me, said the Lord GOD.

1 Peter 3:3-5

Let their adorning not be outward with ostentatious hairdos and wearing of gold nor in composition of apparel,

Revelation 21:2

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

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