Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me 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.

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.

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 Jehovah: A wilderness have I been to Israel? A land of thick darkness? Wherefore have My people said, 'We mourned, We come not in again unto Thee.' 32 Doth a virgin forget her ornaments? A bride her bands? And My people have forgotten Me days without number. 33 What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.



Cross References

Psalm 106:21

They have forgotten God their saviour, The doer of great things in Egypt,

Isaiah 17:10

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, And the rock of thy strength hast not remembered, Therefore thou plantest plants of pleasantness, And with a strange slip sowest it,

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice on high places is heard -- weeping, Supplications of the sons of Israel, For they have made perverse their way, They have forgotten Jehovah their God.

Hosea 8:14

And forget doth Israel his Maker, and buildeth temples, And Judah hath multiplied cities of defence, And I have sent a fire into his cities, And it hath consumed their palaces!

Isaiah 61:10

I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.

Jeremiah 13:25

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.

Jeremiah 18:15

But My people have forgotten Me, to a vain thing they make perfume, And they cause them to stumble in their ways -- paths of old, To walk in paths -- a way not raised up,

Genesis 24:22

And it cometh to pass when the camels have finished drinking, that the man taketh a golden ring (whose weight is a bekah), and two bracelets for her hands (whose weight is ten bekahs of gold),

Genesis 24:30

yea, it cometh to pass, when he seeth the ring, and the bracelets on the hands of his sister, and when he heareth the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, 'Thus hath the man spoken unto me,' that he cometh in unto the man, and lo, he is standing by the camels by the fountain.

Genesis 24:53

and the servant taketh out vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and giveth to Rebekah; precious things also he hath given to her brother and to her mother.

2 Samuel 1:24

Daughters of Israel! for Saul weep ye, Who is clothing you in scarlet with delights. Who is lifting up ornaments of gold on your clothing.

Psalm 9:17

The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

Psalm 45:13-14

All glory is the daughter of the king within, Of gold-embroidered work is her clothing.

Jeremiah 2:11

Hath a nation changed gods? (And they are no gods!) And My people hath changed its honour For that which doth not profit.

Jeremiah 13:10

This evil people, who refuse to hear My words, Who walk in the stubbornness of their heart, And go after other gods to serve them, And to bow themselves to them, Yea it is -- as this girdle, that is not profitable for anything.

Ezekiel 16:10-13

And I clothe thee with embroidery, And I shoe thee with badger's skin, And I gird thee with fine linen, And I cover thee with figured silk.

Ezekiel 22:12

A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!

1 Peter 3:3-5

whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

Revelation 21:2

and I, John, saw the holy city -- new Jerusalem -- coming down from God out of the heaven, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband;

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