Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.
Jeremiah 2:33 - Revised Standard Version “How well you direct your course to seek lovers! So that even to wicked women you have 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, |
Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that they did more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.
How can you say, ‘I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,
Can a maiden forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things
How lightly you gad about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.
Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you, and diminished your allotted portion, and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
Yet you were not content to walk in their ways, or do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.
And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned incense to them and decked herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, says the Lord.