Jeremiah Chapter 2 verse 33 Holy Bible

ASV Jeremiah 2:33

How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
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BBE Jeremiah 2:33

With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.
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DARBY Jeremiah 2:33

How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.
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KJV Jeremiah 2:33

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
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WBT Jeremiah 2:33


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WEB Jeremiah 2:33

How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.
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YLT Jeremiah 2:33

What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 33. - Why trimmest thou thy way I rather, How well thou contrivest thy way, etc.? Therefore hast thou also taught, etc. The meaning which floated before our trans-labors seems to be this: "so utterly immoral is thy course of life, that even the worst of women ['wicked ones' is in the feminine] have been able to learn something from thee" (so the great Dutch scholar, De Dieu,in 1548). But a more natural rendering is, "Therefore [i.e. to gain thine ends] thou hast accustomed thy ways to those evil things." Nemo repente fuit tupissimus. It required a deliberate "accustoming," or "training" (such is the literal meaning of limad), to produce such a habit (ἕξις) as is here rebuked.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(33) Why trimmest thou thy way . . .?--The verb is the same as that rendered "amend" in Jeremiah 7:3; Jeremiah 7:5, and was probably often on the lips of those who made a show of reformation. Here it is used with a scornful irony, "What means this reform, this show of amendment of thy ways, which leads only to a further indulgence in adulterous love?"Hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.--Better, hast thou also taught thy ways wickednesses. The professed change for the better was really for the worse.