Parallel Verses

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?

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 A young woman cannot forget her jewelry or a bride her breastband (sash) (girdle). Yet, my people have forgotten me for countless days. 33 “How well you prepare your way
To seek love!
Therefore even the wicked women
You have taught your ways.
34 You have bloodstains from innocent poor people on your clothes. You did not kill them for breaking in to your home.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:9

Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that they did more evil things than the nations that Jehovah destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.

Isaiah 57:7-10

You placed your bed on a lofty and high mountain. Even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

Jeremiah 2:23

How can you say, 'I have not been dishonored and have not gone after the Baal gods?' Look how you have behaved in the valley. Acknowledge what you have done. You are like a young camel that swiftly runs here and there.

Jeremiah 2:36

You change your mind so easily. You will be shamed by Egypt as you were shamed by Assyria.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.

Ezekiel 16:27

Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you. They are also disgusted with your immoral actions.

Ezekiel 16:47

Yet you have not merely walked in their ways or done according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you acted more corruptly in all your conduct than they.

Ezekiel 16:51-52

Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have done many more disgusting things than they ever did. Because of all the disgusting things that you have done, you make your sisters look innocent.

Hosea 2:5-7

Their mother played the harlot. She that conceived them acted shamefully! For she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her for the days in which she burned incense to the Baals, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, said Jehovah.

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