And Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, so that they did evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
Jeremiah 2:33 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition How you deck yourself and direct your way to procure [adulterous] love! Because of it even wicked women have learned [indecent] ways from you. American Standard Version (1901) How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways. Common English Bible So skilled are you at pursuing lovers that you instruct even the most wicked. Catholic Public Domain Version Why are you striving to claim that your way is good, as if to seek my love, when all the while you are also displaying your malice by your own way, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Why dost thou endeavor to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who has also taught thy malices to be thy ways, |
And Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, so that they did evil more than did the nations, whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.
How canst thou say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Also, in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: I have not found it at the place of breaking in, but upon all these.
Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Behold therefore, I have stretched out my hand over thee, and have diminished thine ordinary food, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Yet hast thou not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast more corrupt than they in all thy ways.
And I will visit upon her the days of the Baalim, unto which she burned incense; when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.