So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
Jeremiah 2:33 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised How skilfully you pursue love; you also teach evil women your ways. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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, |
So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
How can you protest, ‘I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals’? Look at your behaviour in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young camel twisting and turning on her way,
Can a young woman forget her jewellery or a bride her wedding sash? Yet my people have forgotten me for countless days.
Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor. You did not catch them breaking and entering. But in spite of all these things
How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be put to shame by Egypt just as you were put to shame by Assyria.
‘ “Therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were embarrassed by your indecent conduct.
Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before all your ways were more corrupt than theirs.
And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense. She put on her rings and her jewellery and followed her lovers, but she forgot me. This is the Lord’s declaration.