Jeremiah 2:32
Does a girl forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding dress? Yet my people have forgotten me for too many years to count.
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In Context
33How cleverly you look for your lovers! Even prostitutes could learn something from you!
Cross References
Genesis 24:22Once the camels had finished drinking, he gave her a gold nose-ring and two heavy gold bracelets for her wrists.
Genesis 24:53Then he unpacked silver and gold jewelry and expensive clothes and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable presents to her brother and her mother.
Judges 8:34They forgot about the Lord their God, who had saved them from all their enemies that surrounded them.
Psalms 9:17The wicked depart, going to the grave—all nations who turn their backs on God.
Psalms 106:21They forgot God, their Savior, who had done marvelous things in Egypt;
Isaiah 61:10I will happily celebrate in the Lord! My whole being will shout praises to my God. For he has dressed me with the clothing of salvation, and has wrapped around me a robe of goodness. I am like a bridegroom dressed for the wedding, like a bride wearing her jewels.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:30-37
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord . 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord . Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people… Read the whole commentary →