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
To seek love!
Therefore even
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
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
Yatab
Baqash
Lamad
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:33
Verse Info
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.