Jeremiah 2:33

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Why do you make your ways pleasing to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the wicked your ways.

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy ways,

GNV

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

JPS

How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! Therefore — even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways;

LXXE

What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou hast done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;

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WLC

מַה־תֵּיטִ֥בִי דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ אַהֲבָ֑ה לָכֵן֙ גַּ֣ם אֶת־הָרָע֔וֹת למדתי אֶת־דְּרָכָֽיִךְ׃Read aloud as (qere): לִמַּ֖דְתְּ

LXX-Br

Τί ἔτι καλὸν ἐπιτηδεύσεις ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς σου, τοῦ ζητῆσαι ἀγάπησιν; οὐχ οὕτως· ἀλλὰ καὶ σὺ ἐπονηρεύσω τοῦ μιάναι τὰς ὁδούς σου,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Ezekiel 16:47And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
• Isaiah 57:7–10On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices. Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it…
• Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
• Ezekiel 16:27Therefore 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.
• Jeremiah 2:23“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,
• 2 Chronicles 33:9So 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.
• Jeremiah 3:1–2“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?”…
• Hosea 2:5–7For 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.’ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up…
• Ezekiel 16:51–52Furthermore, 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. So now you must bear…
• Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

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