“Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.”
Jeremiah 2:32 (KJV)
Context Reading
30In 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? 32Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number. 33Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. 34Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.