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Jeremiah 2:33

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
מַה־mah-how!H4100 →
תֵּיטִ֥בִיtei.Ti.viyou make goodH3190 →
דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְdar.Kekhway yourH1870 →
לְבַקֵּ֣שׁle.va.Keshto seekH1245 →
אַהֲבָ֑ה'a.ha.VahloveH160 →
לָכֵן֙la.Khen<to> thereforeH3651 →
גַּ֣םgamalsoH1571 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הָרָע֔וֹתha.ra.'ot<the> wicked womenH7451 →
לִמַּ֖דְתְּli.mad.tiyou have taughtH3925 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
דְּרָכָֽיִךְ׃de.ra.Kha.yikhways yourH1870 →

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1 Corinthians 5:1It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is intolerable even among pagans: A man has his father’s wife.Ezekiel 16:47And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.Isaiah 57:7–10On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.Ezekiel 16:51–52Furthermore, Samaria did not commit half the sins you did. You have multiplied your abominations beyond theirs, and all the abominations you have committed have made your sisters appear righteous.Ezekiel 16:27Therefore I stretched out My hand against you and reduced your portion. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd conduct.Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.Hosea 2:5–7For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers, who give me bread and water, wool and linen, oil and drink.’2 Chronicles 33:9So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.Jeremiah 3:1–2“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 2:23“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,Isaiah 1:4Alas, O sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children of depravity! They have forsaken the LORD; they have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on Him.Jeremiah 5:28They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy.Proverbs 7:12Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.Hosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.

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About Jeremiah

The Prophet Jeremiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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