Parallel Verses

NET Bible

"My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

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.

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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 Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels? Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can even be counted. 33 "My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two! 34 Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:9

But Manasseh misled the people of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed ahead of the Israelites.

Isaiah 57:7-10

On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.

Jeremiah 2:23

"How can you say, 'I have not made myself unclean. I have not paid allegiance to the gods called Baal.' Just look at the way you have behaved in the Valley of Hinnom! Think about the things you have done there! You are like a flighty, young female camel that rushes here and there, crisscrossing its path.

Jeremiah 2:36

Why do you constantly go about changing your political allegiances? You will get no help from Egypt just as you got no help from Assyria.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?" says the Lord.

Ezekiel 16:27

So see here, I have stretched out my hand against you and cut off your rations. I have delivered you into the power of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed by your obscene conduct.

Ezekiel 16:47

Have you not copied their behavior and practiced their abominable deeds? In a short time you became even more depraved in all your conduct than they were!

Ezekiel 16:51-52

Samaria has not committed half the sins you have; you have done more abominable deeds than they did. You have made your sisters appear righteous with all the abominable things you have done.

Hosea 2:5-7

For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said, "I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.

Hosea 2:13

"I will punish her for the festival days when she burned incense to the Baal idols; she adorned herself with earrings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but she forgot me!" says the Lord.

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