Jeremiah 2:33
How well thou direct thy derech to seek ahavah? 1 Therefore hast thou also taught hara'ot (the worst women) 1 the darkhei (ways) of thee. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 33:9So Menasheh made Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim to be led astray, and to do rah more than the Goyim, whom Hashem had destroyed before the Bnei Yisroel.
Jeremiah 2:23How canst thou say: I am not tameh, 1 I have not gone after Ba'alim? 1 See thy derech in the valley, 1 know what thou hast done: 1 thou art a swift camel traversing her ways; 1
Jeremiah 3:1They say: 1 If an ish put away [in divorce] his isha, 1 and she go from him, 1 and become another manʼs, 1 shall he return unto her again? 1 Shall not that eretz be defiled and greatly polluted? 1 But thou hast played the zonah with re'im rabbim (many lovers); 1 yet shuv (turn) to Me, saith Hashem. 1
Ezekiel 16:47Yet hast thou not walked after their drakhim, nor done after their to'avot; but, as if that were too little a thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy drakhim.
Hosea 2:5Lest I strip her naked, 1 and set her as bare as the day she was born, 1 and make her as a midbar, 1 and turn her like an eretz tziyyah (parched land), 1 and kill her with tzamah (thirst). 1
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:30-37
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord . 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord . Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people… Read the whole commentary →