Jeremiah 2:33
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.”
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“How skillfully you pursue love! Even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.”
King James Version · Public Domain“How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“What--dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 2:33 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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.
- Isaiah 57:7On a high and lofty hill you have made your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifices.
- 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,
- Jeremiah 2:36How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be disappointed by Egypt just as you were by Assyria.
- Jeremiah 3:1“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.
- 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.
- Ezekiel 16:47And you not only walked in their ways and practiced their abominations, but soon you were more depraved than they were.
- Ezekiel 16:51Furthermore, 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.
- Hosea 2:5For 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.’
- 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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