Jeremiah 2:32 BSB — MannaFest

Jeremiah 2:32

Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah (420)

(Verse 32.) Will the virgin forget her adornment, and the bride her breastplate? My people have forgotten me in countless days. Through these things we learn that Christ is the bridegroom of the virgin Church, which has no blemish or wrinkle. But if he is the bridegroom, his words are, as John the Baptist speaks: He who has the bride is the bridegroom (John 3:29). Therefore, he loses his adornment who departs from the Lord, and loses the understanding of the teachings, which is symbolized in the breastplate.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Can a maid forget her ornaments,.... Which she has provided for her wedding day, and is then to wear, and which may be the next; such as ear rings, bracelets, and jewels, which are never out of her mind, and can scarce sleep for thinking of them, how richly she shall be adorned with them; wherefore it follows: or a bride her attire? or, "her bindings" (o); her knots about her head or breast.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Can a maid forget her ornaments - This people has not so much attachment to me as young females have to their dress and ornaments. They never forget them and even when arrived at old age, look with pleasure on the dress and ornaments which they have worn in their youth. Days without number - That is, for many years; during the whole reign of Manasses, which was fifty-five years, the land was deluged with idolatry, from which the reform by good King Josiah his grandson had not yet purified it.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הֲתִשְׁכַּ֤ח	ha.tish.Kach	¿ will she forget	H7911 →
בְּתוּלָה֙	be.tu.Lah	a virgin	H1330 →
עֶדְיָ֔הּ	'ed.Yah	ornament[s] her	H5716 →
כַּלָּ֖ה	ka.Lah	a bride	H3618 →
קִשֻּׁרֶ֑יהָ	ki.shu.Rei.ha	sashes her	H7196 →
וְעַמִּ֣י	ve.'a.Mi	and people my	H5971 →
שְׁכֵח֔וּנִי	she.khe.Chu.ni	they have forgotten me	H7911 →
יָמִ֖ים	ya.Mim	days	H3117 →
אֵ֥ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
מִסְפָּֽר׃	mis.Par	[is] number	H4557 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 2:11
Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.
leads to
- Romans 1:23
  and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
- Isaiah 37:19
  They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
- Jeremiah 16:20
  Can man make gods for himself? Such are not gods!”
- Psalms 106:20
  They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.
- Micah 4:5
  Though each of the peoples may walk in the name of his god, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.
Through
Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines—
leads to
- Psalms 106:21
  They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,
- Isaiah 26:4
  Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Through
Jeremiah 13:25
This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
leads to
- Job 20:29
  This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Jeremiah

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Jeremiah