Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways. New Living Translation “How you plot and scheme to win your lovers. Even an experienced prostitute could learn from you! English Standard Version “How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways. Berean Standard Bible How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways. King James Bible Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. New King James Version “Why do you beautify your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught The wicked women your ways. New American Standard Bible “How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even to the wicked women You have taught your ways. NASB 1995 “How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even the wicked women You have taught your ways. NASB 1977 “How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even the wicked women You have taught your ways. Legacy Standard Bible How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even the wicked women You have taught your ways. Amplified Bible “How well you prepare your path To seek and obtain [adulterous] love! Even the most wicked of women Have learned [indecent] ways from you. Christian Standard Bible How skillfully you pursue love; you also teach evil women your ways. Holman Christian Standard Bible How skillfully you pursue love; you also teach evil women your ways. American Standard Version How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways. Contemporary English Version You are so clever at finding lovers that you could give lessons to a prostitute. English Revised Version How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways. GOD'S WORD® Translation You carefully planned ways to look for love. You taught your ways to wicked women. Good News Translation You certainly know how to chase after lovers. Even the worst of women can learn from you. International Standard Version How well you perfect your techniques for seeking love. Therefore you can teach even the most immoral women your techniques. Majority Standard Bible How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways. NET Bible "My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two! New Heart English Bible How well you prepare your way to seek love. Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways. Webster's Bible Translation 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionWhy do you make your ways pleasing to seek love? Therefore you have even taught the wicked your ways. Young's Literal Translation What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways. Smith's Literal Translation How wilt thou make good thy way to seek love? for this also thou didst teach the evil ones thy ways. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleWhy dost thou endeavor to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy ways, Catholic Public Domain Version 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, New American Bible How well you pick your way when seeking love! In your wickedness, you have gone by ways unclean! New Revised Standard Version How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleWhy do you deck yourself to induce love? For behold you have also learned evil by means of your conduct. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Why have you again prepared your ways to seek love? Behold, you have also learned evil in your ways OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917How trimmest thou thy way To seek love! Therefore--even the wicked women Hast thou taught thy ways; Brenton Septuagint Translation What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou has done wickedly in corrupting thy ways; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Israel's Unfaithfulness…32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number. 33How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways. 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… Cross References Hosea 2:5 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.’ Ezekiel 16:25 At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by. Isaiah 57:8 Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness. Proverbs 7:10-12 Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart. / She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home. / Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner. Ezekiel 23:40 Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry. Isaiah 1:21 See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers! Hosea 4:12-14 My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin. 2 Kings 17:15 They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate. Ezekiel 16:33-34 Men give gifts to all their prostitutes, but you gave gifts to all your lovers. You bribed them to come to you from everywhere for your illicit favors. / So your prostitution is the opposite of that of other women: No one solicited your favors, and you paid a fee instead of receiving one; so you are the very opposite! Isaiah 30:1 “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. James 4:4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. Matthew 12:39 Jesus replied, “A wicked and adulterous generation demands a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 2 Timothy 3:6 They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions, Revelation 17:1-2 Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters. / The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and those who dwell on the earth were intoxicated with the wine of her immorality.” 1 Corinthians 6:15-16 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! / Or don’t you know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.” Treasury of Scripture Why trim you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways. why Jeremiah 2:23,36 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways; … Jeremiah 3:1,2 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD… Isaiah 57:7-10 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice… hast 2 Chronicles 33:9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel. Ezekiel 16:27,47,51,52 Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way… Jump to Previous Accustomed Care Course Direct Love Ones Ordered Prepare Pursuing Seek Skilled Taught Trim Way Ways Wicked Wickedness Women WorstJump to Next Accustomed Care Course Direct Love Ones Ordered Prepare Pursuing Seek Skilled Taught Trim Way Ways Wicked Wickedness Women WorstJeremiah 2 1. God having shown his former kindness, 5. expostulates with the people on their causeless and unexampled revolt 14. They are the causes of their own calamities 18. The sins and idolatries of Judah 35. Her confidence is rejected. How skillfully you pursue love! This phrase begins with an observation of Israel's behavior, highlighting their adeptness in pursuing what they desire, albeit in a misguided manner. The Hebrew root for "skillfully" (כָּלַךְ, kalak) implies a sense of cunning or artfulness. Historically, this reflects Israel's tendency to adopt the practices and gods of surrounding nations, despite their covenant with Yahweh. The pursuit of "love" here is not genuine affection but rather a metaphor for idolatry and alliances with foreign nations, which were often seen as acts of unfaithfulness to God. This phrase serves as a poignant reminder of the human tendency to seek fulfillment outside of God's will, using our God-given talents for purposes that lead us away from Him. Even the wicked women have learned your ways Hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.--Better, hast thou also taught thy ways wickednesses. The professed change for the better was really for the worse. Verse 33. - Why trimmest thou thy way I rather, How well thou contrivest thy way, etc.? Therefore hast thou also taught, etc. The meaning which floated before our trans-labors seems to be this: "so utterly immoral is thy course of life, that even the worst of women ['wicked ones' is in the feminine] have been able to learn something from thee" (so the great Dutch scholar, De Dieu,in 1548). But a more natural rendering is, "Therefore [i.e. to gain thine ends] thou hast accustomed thy ways to those evil things." Nemo repente fuit tupissimus. It required a deliberate "accustoming," or "training" (such is the literal meaning of limad), to produce such a habit (ἕξις) as is here rebuked.Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Howמַה־ (mah-) Interrogative Strong's 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what skillfully תֵּיטִ֥בִי (tê·ṭi·ḇî) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person feminine singular Strong's 3190: To be good, well, glad, or pleasing you pursue לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ (lə·ḇaq·qêš) Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct Strong's 1245: To search out, to strive after love; אַהֲבָ֑ה (’a·hă·ḇāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 160: Love (noun) even גַּ֣ם (gam) Conjunction Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and the most immoral of women הָרָע֔וֹת (hā·rā·‘ō·wṯ) Article | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 7451: Bad, evil could learn לִמַּ֖דְתְּ (lim·maḏt) Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person feminine singular Strong's 3925: To exercise in, learn from your ways. דְּרָכָֽיִךְ׃ (də·rā·ḵā·yiḵ) Noun - common plural construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action Links Jeremiah 2:33 NIVJeremiah 2:33 NLT Jeremiah 2:33 ESV Jeremiah 2:33 NASB Jeremiah 2:33 KJV Jeremiah 2:33 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 2:33 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 2:33 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 2:33 French Bible Jeremiah 2:33 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 2:33 How trimmest you your way to seek (Jer.) |
    |