Jeremiah 2:33

Jeremiah chapter 2 · verse 33 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.32Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.

v.33This passage

v.34Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: thou didst not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hosea 2:5

    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.

  • Jeremiah 3:1

    They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man’s, will he return unto her again? will not that land be greatly polluted? But thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith Jehovah.

  • Ezekiel 16:47

    Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.

  • Hosea 2:13

    And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith Jehovah.

  • Jeremiah 2:23

    How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

  • Isaiah 57:7

    Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed; thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.