Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 Generation, consider the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?' 32 "Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number. 33 How well you prepare your way to seek love. Therefore you have taught even the wicked women 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 strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; 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; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses."

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 salvation, he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

Jeremiah 13:25

This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,' says the LORD; 'because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

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 byways, in a way not built up;

Genesis 24:22

It happened, 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,

Genesis 24:30

It happened, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," that he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

Genesis 24:53

The servant brought forth jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.

2 Samuel 1:24

You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet delicately, who put ornaments of gold on your clothing.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.

Psalm 45:13-14

The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed its gods, which really 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 walk in the stubbornness of their heart, and are gone after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this belt, which is profitable for nothing.

Ezekiel 16:10-13

I clothed you also with embroidered work, and shod you with sealskin, and I dressed you about with fine linen, and covered you with silk.

Ezekiel 22:12

In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,' says the Lord GOD.

1 Peter 3:3-5

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing;

Revelation 21:2

I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

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