33How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.


In Context

30 "In vain I punished your people; they did not respond to correction. Your sword has devoured your prophets like a ravening lion.

31 "You of this generation, consider the word of the Lord : "Have I been a desert to Israel or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We are free to roam; we will come to you no more'?

32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry, a bride her wedding ornaments? Yet my people have forgotten me, days without number.

33 How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

34 On your clothes men find the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this

35 you say, 'I am innocent; he is not angry with me.' But I will pass judgment on you because you say, 'I have not sinned.'

Jeremiah 2:33 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:33Why dost thou endeavor to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy ways,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:33How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:33What — dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:33Why trim you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.