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32 Can a young woman forget her ornaments
    or a bride her attire?
Yet my people have forgotten me,
    days without number.(A)

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21 A voice on the bare heights[a] is heard,
    the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children,
because they have perverted their way;
    they have forgotten the Lord their God:(A)

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  1. 3.21 Or the trails

21 They forgot God, their Savior,
    who had done great things in Egypt,(A)

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10 For you have forgotten God your Savior
    and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant gardens
    and set out branches of a foreign god,(A)

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14 Israel has forgotten his Maker
    and built palaces,
and Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
    but I will send a fire upon his cities,
    and it shall devour his strongholds.(A)

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25 This is your lot,
    the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord,
because you have forgotten me
    and trusted in lies.(A)

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11 Has a nation changed its gods,
    even though they are no gods?
But my people have changed their glory
    for something that does not profit.(A)

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10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
    my whole being shall exult in my God,
for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
    he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland
    and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.(A)

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17 The wicked shall depart to Sheol,
    all the nations that forget God.(A)

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And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.(A)

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15 But my people have forgotten me;
    they burn offerings to a delusion;
they have stumbled[a] in their ways,
    in the ancient roads,
and have gone into bypaths,
    not the highway,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 18.15 Gk Syr Vg: Heb they made them stumble

Do not adorn yourselves outwardly by braiding your hair and by wearing gold ornaments or fine clothing;(A) rather, let your adornment be the inner self with the lasting beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in God’s sight.(B) It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves by being subject to their husbands.

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12 In you, they take bribes to shed blood; you take both advance interest and accrued interest and make gain of your neighbors by extortion, and you have forgotten me, says the Lord God.(A)

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10 I clothed you with embroidered cloth and with sandals of fine leather; I bound you in fine linen and covered you with rich fabric.[a] 11 I adorned you with ornaments: I put bracelets on your arms, a chain on your neck,(A) 12 a ring on your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown upon your head. 13 You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, rich fabric,[b] and embroidered cloth. You had choice flour and honey and oil for food. You grew exceedingly beautiful, fit to be a queen.(B)

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  1. 16.10 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. 16.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain

10 This evil people, who refuse to hear my words, who stubbornly follow their own will and have gone after other gods to serve them and worship them, shall be like this loincloth, which is good for nothing.(A)

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13     with all kinds of wealth.

The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;[a](A)
14     in many-colored robes she is led to the king;
    behind her the virgins, her companions, follow.(B)

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  1. 45.13 Or people. All glorious is the princess within, gold embroidery is her clothing

24 O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,
    who clothed you with crimson, in luxury,
    who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.

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53 And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold and garments and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.(A)

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30 As soon as he had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms and when he heard the words of his sister Rebekah, “Thus the man spoke to me,” he went to the man, and there he was, standing by the camels at the spring.

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22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose ring weighing a half shekel and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels(A)

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