Jeremiah 2:33
What does Jeremiah 2:33 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 2:33 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862What--dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
Context
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.
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