Jeremiah 2:33
How thou dost make winsome thy way, to seek love! Therefore, even unto wicked women, hast thou taught thy ways.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 33:9And so Manasseh led astray Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,—to commit wickedness beyond the nations which Yahweh had destroyed from before the sons of Israel.
Jeremiah 2:23How canst thou say, I have not defiled myself, After the Baalim, have I not gone? See thy way, in the valley, Own what thou hast done,—A nimble young she-camel, crossing her own ways;
Jeremiah 3:1He hath said, If a man send away his wife, and she go from him and become another man’s, will he return unto her, again? would not that land be, utterly defiled? And, thou, hast been unchaste with many neighbours, and yet [thinkest] to return unto me! Declareth Yahweh.
Ezekiel 16:47Yet not in their ways, didst thou walk, nor according to their abominations, didst thou do,— As though that were quite too little, thou didst corrupt thyself beyond them in all thy ways.
Hosea 2:5For their mother, hath been unchaste, and she that conceived them, hath caused shame,—for she said, Let me go after my lovers! who used to give my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, mine oil, and my 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 →