Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Why boastest thou thy ways so highly, to obtain favour therethrough, when thou hast yet stained them with blasphemies?
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.
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.
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 Doth a maiden forget her raiment, or a bride her stomacher? But as for my people, they have forgotten me for days innumerable. 33 Why boastest thou thy ways so highly, to obtain favour therethrough, when thou hast yet stained them with blasphemies? 34 Upon thy wings is found the blood of poor and innocent people; and that not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:9
But Manasseh made Judah and the inhabiters of Jerusalem to err and to do worse than the heathen which the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
Isaiah 57:7-10
Thou hast made thy bed upon high mountains; thou wentest up thither, and there hast thou slain sacrifices.
Jeremiah 2:23
Say not now, 'I am not unclean, and I have not followed Baal.' Look upon thy own ways in the woods, valleys and dens: so shalt thou know, what thou hast done. Thou art like a swift Dromedary that goeth easily his way:
Jeremiah 2:36
O how evil will it be for thee to abide it, when it shall be known how oft thou hast gone backward? For thou shalt be confounded as well of Egypt, as thou wast of the Assyrians.
Jeremiah 3:1-2
Commonly, when a man putteth away his wife, and she goeth from him, and marrieth with another, then the question is: should he resort unto her any more after that? Is not this field then defiled and unclean? But as for thee, thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, yet turn again to me, sayeth the LORD.
Ezekiel 16:27
Behold, I will stretch out mine hand over thee, and will diminish thy store of food, and deliver thee over into the wiles of the Philistines thine enemies, which are ashamed of thy abominable way.
Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they.
Ezekiel 16:51-52
Neither hath Samaria done half of thy sins. Yea, thou hast exceeded them in wickedness: Insomuch that in comparison of all the abominations which thou hast done, thou hast made thy sisters good women.
Hosea 2:5-7
Their mother hath broken her wedlock, and she that bare them, is come to confusion. For she said, 'I will go after my lovers, that give me my water and my bread, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.'
Hosea 2:13
I will punish her also for the days of Baal, wherein she censed him, decking him with her earrings and chains: when she followed her lovers, and forgat me, sayeth the LORD.