32 Does a young woman forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.
32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
32 Young women don't forget their jewelry, do they? Brides don't show up without their veils, do they? But my people forget me. Day after day after day they never give me a thought.
32 Can a virgin forget her ornaments, Or a bride her attire? Yet My people have forgotten Me days without number.
32 Does a young woman forget her jewelry, or a bride her wedding dress? Yet for years on end my people have forgotten me.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 2:32
Commentary on Jeremiah 2:29-37
(Read Jeremiah 2:29-37)
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 darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Here is the language of presumptuous sinners. The Jews had long thrown off serious thoughts of God. How many days of our lives pass without suitable remembrance of him! The Lord was displeased with their confidences, and would not prosper them therein. Men employ all their ingenuity, but cannot find happiness in the way of sin, or excuse for it. They may shift from one sin to another, but none ever hardened himself against God, or turned from him, and prospered.