Jeremiah 2:33 “How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could l…”

Jeremiah 2:33

How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

World English Bible

How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.

American Standard Version

How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

Geneva Bible 1599

Why doest thou prepare thy way, to seeke amitie? euen therefore will I teach thee, that thy waies are wickednesse.

Darby Translation

How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.

Young's Literal Translation

What — dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

Bible in Basic English

With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.

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Cross references

“Why”

Isaiah 57:7–10 Jeremiah 2:23 Jeremiah 2:36 Hosea 2:5–7 Hosea 2:13 Jeremiah 3:1

Isaiah 57:7–10 · BSB

On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.

Jeremiah 2:23 · BSB

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

Jeremiah 2:36 · BSB

How impulsive you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.

Hosea 2:5–7 · BSB

For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’

Hosea 2:13 · BSB

I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she adorned herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 3:1 · BSB

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers— and you would return to Me?” decla…

“hast”

Ezekiel 16:47 2 Chronicles 33:9 Ezekiel 16:27 Ezekiel 16:51 Ezekiel 16:52

Ezekiel 16:47 · BSB

And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.

2 Chronicles 33:9 · BSB

So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

Ezekiel 16:27 · BSB

Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.

Ezekiel 16:51 · BSB

Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.

Ezekiel 16:52 · BSB

So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgra…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.

34Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

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