Catholic Public Domain Version
"Can a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride the covering across her breast? Yet truly, my people have forgotten me, for innumerable days. "
— Jeremiah 2:32, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.”
“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. ”
“"Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.”
“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.”
“Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me days without number.”
“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.”
“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.”
Why do you want to contend against me in judgment? You have all forsaken me, says the Lord.
I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion.
Consider the word of the Lord. Have I become like a wilderness to Israel, or like a land late to bear fruit? Then why have my people said, ‘We are withdrawing; we will no longer approach you’?
Can a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride the covering across her breast? Yet truly, my people have forgotten me, for innumerable days.
Why are you striving to claim that your way is good, as if to seek my love, when all the while you are also displaying your malice by your own way,
and in your armpits there is found the blood of poor and innocent souls? I have found them, not in ditches, but everywhere that I mentioned previously.
And you have said: ‘I am innocent and without sin. And because of this, let your fury be turned away from me.’ Behold, I will contend with you in judgment, because you have said: ‘I have not sinned.’