What does Jeremiah 2:32 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number."
Verse Jeremiah 2:32. _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 a...
A bride treasures all her life the girdle, which first indicated that she was a married woman, just as brides now treasure the wedding ring; but Israel, Yahweh’s bride Jeremiah 2:2, cherishes no fond...
CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5 Expostulation and Impeachment _ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _ 2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4) 3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12) 4...
THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that o...
Israel's disregard of Jehovah's past favours 31. _O generation, see ye_ O GENERATION THAT YE ARE, SEE. _a wilderness_ Have I been like a place where ye lacked sustenance? Not so. Cp. Hosea 2:8. _th...
DISCOURSE: 1031 GOD’S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE REBELLIOUS Jeremiah 2:31. _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...
E. Pungent Argument Jeremiah 2:29-37 TRANSLATION (29) Why do you continue to complain to Me? All of you have transgressed against Me (oracle of the LORD). (30) In vain I have smitten your sons; they...
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. CAN A MAID FORGET - Oriental females greatly pride themselves on their ornaments (cf. ,...
JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5) The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness to Jehovah. 1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the people of Hi...
OR A BRIDE HER ATTIRE. — The word is rendered “headbands” in Isaiah 3:20, but here it probably means the “girdle” which formed the special distinction of the wife as contrasted with the maiden. Such a...
הֲ תִשְׁכַּ֤ח בְּתוּלָה֙ עֶדְיָ֔הּ כַּלָּ֖ה קִשֻּׁרֶ֑יהָ וְ עַמִּ֣י שְׁכֵח֔וּנִי יָמִ֖ים אֵ֥ין מִסְפָּֽר׃...
CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem. This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what this Chapter affords, from beginning to end. The Lord sends the Proph...
God here confirms what is said in the last verse, and would make his people ashamed, because they valued him less than girls are wont to value their ornaments. The necklaces of young women are indeed...
Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem. It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness a...
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 mi...
Can a maid forget her ornaments, [or] a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. Ver. 32. _Can a maid forget her ornaments?_] Not lightly or easily, as minding them many...
Jer. 2:32. "Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number." For our holiness is all the righteousness of God, all the beauty of the soul i...
_O generation_ O wicked generation; _see ye the word of the Lord_ Consider what I say to you from the mouth of God. _Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_ Have ye not been plentifully provided for by...
THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God, but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of darkn...
CAN A MAID FORGET HER ORNAMENTS? how seldom is it, and how unlikely, that a maid should forget her ornaments! OR A BRIDE HER ATTIRE? whether it belongs to the head, or the breast, or arms, whether bra...
Jeremiah 2:32 virgin H1330 forget H7911 (H8799) ornaments H5716 bride H3618 attire H7196 people H5971 forgotten H7911 (H8804) days H3117 number H4557 a maid - Jeremiah 2:11; Genesis 24:22, Genesis 24...
YHWH CHALLENGES HIS PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING AS THEY ARE (JEREMIAH 2:29). YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their favour when all they had previously done...
Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and fo...
Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
_Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_ DIVINE QUESTIONS The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? have I been a land of darkness unto Israel?” Speak ou...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg) would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
EXPOSITION The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses (Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald (and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2); Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is cal...
1 Peter 3:3; 2 Samuel 1:24; Ezekiel 16:10; Ezekiel 22:12; Genesis 24:22; Genesis 24:30; Genesis 24:53; Hosea 8:14; Isaiah 17:10; Isaiah 6
A maid — How unlikely is it, that a maid should forget her ornaments? A bride — Those jewels which the bridegroom was wont to present his bride with. Forgotten — In the neglect of my worship; me, who...