Jeremiah 2:33New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even the wicked women You have taught your ways.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— How, thou dost make winsome thy way, to seek love! Therefore, even unto wicked women, hast thou taught thy ways.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— What—dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Why doest thou prepare thy way, to seeke amitie? euen therefore will I teach thee, that thy waies are wickednesse.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Why trimmest thou thy way to seeke loue? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy wayes.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Why do you deck yourself to induce love? For behold you have also learned evil by means of your conduct.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— 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;
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. |
Why
x4100 (4100) Complementמָּהmah{maw}
A primitive particle; properly interrogitive what? (including how?, why? and when?); but also exclamations like what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational senses.
trimmest
3190 {3190} Primeיָטַבyatab{yaw-tab'}
A primitive root; to be (causatively) make well, literally ( sound, beautiful) or figuratively ( happy, successful, right).
z8686 <8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 4046
thou thy way
1870 {1870} Primeדֶּרֶךְderek{deh'-rek}
From H1869; a road (as trodden); figuratively a course of life or mode of action, often adverbially.
to seek
1245 {1245} Primeבּקשׁbaqash{baw-kash'}
A primitive root; to search out (by any method; specifically in worship or prayer); by implication to strive after.
z8763 <8763> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Infinitive (See H8812) Count - 790
love?
160 {0160} Primeאַהֲבָה'ahabah{a-hab-aw'}
Feminine of H0158 and meaning the same.
therefore
x3651 (3651) Complementכֵּןken{kane}
From H3559; properly set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjugation) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles).
hast thou also
x1571 (1571) Complementגַּםgam{gam}
By contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correlation both... and.
taught
3925 {3925} Primeלָמַדlamad{law-mad'}
A primitive root; properly to goad, that is, (by implication) to teach (the rod being an Oriental incentive).
z8765 <8765> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2121
x853 (0853) Complementאֵת'eth{ayth}
Apparently contracted from H0226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely).
the wicked ones
7451 {7451} Primeרָעra`{rah}
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun.
x853 (0853) Complementאֵת'eth{ayth}
Apparently contracted from H0226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely).
thy ways.
1870 {1870} Primeדֶּרֶךְderek{deh'-rek}
From H1869; a road (as trodden); figuratively a course of life or mode of action, often adverbially. |
Jeremiah 2:33
_ _ Why trimmest — Maurer translates, “How skilfully thou dost prepare thy way,” etc. But see 2 Kings 9:30. “Trimmest” best suits the image of one decking herself as a harlot.
_ _ way — course of life.
_ _ therefore — accordingly. Or else, “nay, thou hast even,” etc.
_ _ also ... wicked ones — even the wicked harlots, that is, (laying aside the metaphor) even the Gentiles who are wicked, thou teachest to be still more so [Grotius]. |
Jeremiah 2:33
Trimmest — Or, deckest, Ezekiel 23:40, thinking thereby to entice others to thy help. Taught — Nations that have been vile enough of themselves, by thy example are become more vile. |
Jeremiah 2:33
Why trimmest thou thy way to (u) seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
(u) With strangers. |
- Why:
Jeremiah 2:23 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 2:36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
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. ... Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Isaiah 57:7-10 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. ... Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; [yet] saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved.
Hosea 2:5-7 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give [me] my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink. ... And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.
Hosea 2:13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.
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- 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 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.
Ezekiel 16:47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Ezekiel 16:51-52 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. ... Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
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