Jeremiah 2:33

You know how to easily find gods from other countries whom you can love. You can find them as easily as a prostitute can find men to sleep with.

Translation for Translators

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

32A young woman would certainly never [RHQ] forget to wear her jewelry, and a bride would never [RHQ] forget to wear her wedding dress, but you my people have forgotten me for many years.

34Although you have on your clothes the blood of poor people whom you have murdered, people who ◄were innocent/had not done things that are wrong►,

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:9But Manasseh led the people of Jerusalem and other places in Judah to do things that are wrong, with the result that they did more evil than was done by the people in the people-groups that Yahweh had expelled as the Israeli people advanced through the land.

Jeremiah 2:23You say that you have not sinned. You say ‘We have not become unacceptable to God; we have not worshiped Baal.’ But think about the disgusting things that you do very eagerly in Hinnom Valley outside Jerusalem. You are like desperate female camels, running here and there to find male camels to have sex with.

Jeremiah 3:1“ Moses wrote that if a man divorces his wife and then she marries another man, her first husband certainly must not [RHQ] take her back again to be his wife, because that would certainly [RHQ] cause the whole nation to become unacceptable to me. But you have more idols than prostitutes have men whom they have slept with! So, why should I accept you if you return to me?” [RHQ] says Yahweh.

Ezekiel 16:47You not only imitated all [DOU] their detestable behavior, but you quickly became more sinful than they were.

Hosea 2:5Their parents are like prostitutes [MET]: they have been unfaithful to me, and they have done very disgraceful things. They said, ‘We will run to our idols/gods who love us; they are the ones who give us food and water and wool and linen and olive oil, and wine to drink.’

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 →

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