Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
How well you do [on] your way to seek love! {Therefore} even [to] the wicked [woman] you can teach your 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.
Julia Smith Translation
How wilt thou make good thy way to seek love? for this also thou didst teach the evil ones thy ways.
King James 2000
Why beautify your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones 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
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 2:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel Deserves To Be Punished
32 Can a young woman forget her ornaments? [Or] a bride her sashes? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number. 33 How well you do [on] your way to seek love! {Therefore} even [to] the wicked [woman] you can teach your ways. 34 Also on your skirts is found [the] blood of [the] life of [the] innocent, [the] poor. You did not find them in the act of breaking into a house. But in spite of all these [things],
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:9
And Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do evil more than the nations that Yahweh destroyed before the {Israelites}.
Isaiah 57:7-10
You have set your bed upon a high and lofty mountain; indeed, you went up there to slaughter sacrifice.
Jeremiah 2:23
"How can you say, 'I have not defiled myself, I have not gone after the Baals?' Look at your way in the valley, know what you have done. [You are] a young she-camel, interweaving her ways.
Jeremiah 2:36
How you go about so much changing your way! Also by Egypt you will be put to shame, just as you were put to shame by Assyria.
Jeremiah 3:1-2
A {saying}: 'Look, [if] a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him {and she becomes another man's wife}, will he return to her again?' Will not that land be greatly defiled? And you have prostituted [yourself] [with] many lovers, [would] you now return to me?" {declares} Yahweh.
Ezekiel 16:27
And look! I stretched out my hand against you, and I reduced your portion, and I gave you into the desire of your haters, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed because of your lewd {conduct}.
Ezekiel 16:47
And you have not [only] gone in their ways, but you [also] did according to their detestable things. {In such a short time} you behaved [more] corruptly than they in all of your ways.
Ezekiel 16:51-52
And Samaria did not sin {according to even half of your sins}, and you caused your detestable things to increase more than they, and you made your sister righteous [in comparison] with all of your detestable things that you did.
Hosea 2:5-7
Because their mother was unfaithful; she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said: "I will go after my lovers, the ones who give [me] my bread, my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink."
Hosea 2:13
{I will punish her} [for] the days of the Baals, to whom she burns incense, and she decked herself [with] her ornamental ring and jewelry, and she went after her lovers, and forgot me --a declaration of Yahweh.