Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

How wilt thou make good thy way to seek love? for this also thou didst teach the evil ones thy ways.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

How skillfully you pursue love;
you also teach evil women your ways.

International Standard Version

How well you perfect your techniques for seeking love. Therefore you can teach even the most immoral women your techniques.

A Conservative Version

How thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore even the wicked women thou have taught thy ways.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“How well you prepare your path
To seek and obtain [adulterous] love!
Even the most wicked of women
Have learned [indecent] ways from you.

Bible in Basic English

With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.

Darby Translation

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

King James 2000

Why beautify your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.

Lexham Expanded Bible

How well you do [on] your way to seek love! {Therefore} even [to] the wicked [woman] you can teach your ways.

Modern King James verseion

Why did you trim your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught the evil women your ways.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Why boastest thou thy ways so highly, to obtain favour therethrough, when thou hast yet stained them with blasphemies?

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.

The Emphasized Bible

How thou dost make winsome thy way, to seek love! Therefore, even unto wicked women, hast thou taught thy ways.

Webster

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 taught even the wicked women your ways.

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יטב 
Yatab 
Usage: 115

thou thy way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

אהבה 
'ahabah 
Usage: 36

References

Context Readings

Israel Deserves To Be Punished

32 Will a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her girdles? and my people forgat me days of no numbering. 33 How wilt thou make good thy way to seek love? for this also thou didst teach the evil ones thy ways. 34 Also in thy wings were found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: not by breaking in did I find them, but upon all these.



Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:9

And Manasseh will cause Judah and those inhabiting Jerusalem to wander, to do evil more than the nations which Jehovah destroyed from before the sons of Israel

Isaiah 57:7-10

Upon a mountain high and lifted up thou didst set thy bed: also there thou wentest up to sacrifice a sacrifice.

Jeremiah 2:23

How wilt thou say, I was not defiled? I went not after the Baalims? See thy way in the valley, know what thou didst; a young she camel entangling her ways;

Jeremiah 2:36

Why wilt thou despise greatly to do the second time thy way? also thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt as thou wert ashamed of Assur.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

Saying, If a man shall send away his wife, and she went from him and she was to another man, shall he yet turn back to her? Being defiled, shall not that land be defiled? and thou committedst fornication with many shepherds; and turn back to me, says Jehovah.

Ezekiel 16:27

And behold, I stretched forth my hand upon thee, and I will take away thy law, and I will give thee to the soul of those hating thee, the daughters of the rovers, being ashamed of thy way of wickedness.

Ezekiel 16:47

And thou wentest not in their ways, and thou didst not their abominations: loathing as a little, and thou wilt be corrupted above them in all thy ways.

Ezekiel 16:51-52

And Shomeron sinned not according to half thy sins: and thou wilt multiply thine abominations above them, and thou wilt justify thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou didst.

Hosea 2:5-7

For their mother committed fornication: she conceiving them acted shamefully: for she said, I will go after those loving me giving me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, mine oil and my drinks.

Hosea 2:13

And I reviewed upon her the days of the Baals, which she will burn incense to them, and she will be decked with her earring and her necklace, and she will go after those loving her, and she forget me, says Jehovah.

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