Menasheh seduced Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Yisra'el.
Jeremiah 2:33 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught 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, |
Menasheh seduced Yehudah and the inhabitants of Yerushalayim, so that they did evil more than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Yisra'el.
How can you say, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba`alim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: [you are] a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Also in your skirts is found the blood of the souls of the innocent poor: you did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Ashur.
See therefore, I have stretched out my hand over you, and have diminished your ordinary [food], and delivered you to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Pelishtim, who are ashamed of your lewd way.
Yet have you not walked in their ways, nor done after their abominations; but, as [if that were] a very little [thing], you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
I will visit on her the days of the Ba`alim, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,* says the LORD.