Jeremiah 2:33 KJV — MannaFest

Jeremiah 2:33

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.

YLT

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

DBT

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

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Jeremiah — The weeping prophet of Judah's final generation — 627 BC call under Josiah to the 586 BC fall of Jerusalem and into Egyptian exile. Fifty-two chapters of lament, confrontation, and covenant promise, with the New Covenant glimpsed at the book's theological apex.

Author: Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah, of the priestly family of Anathoth (1:1); Baruch the scribe assisted with dictation (36:4, 45:1)
Date: Ministry c. 627–580 BC; book compiled during and after the 586 BC exile

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16 verses on the floor

1 Corinthians 5:1
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
Isaiah 57:7–10
Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 2:36
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Ezekiel 16:51–52
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

"Trimmest" best suits the image of one decking herself as a harlot. way--course of life. therefore--accordingly. Or else, "nay, thou hast even," &c. also . . . wicked ones--even the wicked harlots, that is, (laying aside the metaphor) even the Gentiles who are wicked, thou teachest to be still more so [GROTIUS].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Trimmest - Or, deckest, Ezek xxiii, 40, thinking thereby to entice others to thy help. Taught - Nations that have been vile enough of themselves, by thy example are become more vile.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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H16038× in canon H392585× in canon H3190117× in canon H1245225× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JER 2:33EZE 16:47 EZE 5:6-7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JER 2:33JER 2:36 JER 31:22
JER 2:33JER 2:36 HOS 5:13
JER 2:33EZE 16:27 ISA 9:12
JER 2:33EZE 16:47 2KI 21:9
JER 2:33JER 2:36 HOS 12:1
JER 2:33JER 2:36 JER 2:23
JER 2:33EZE 16:27 EZE 16:57

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