Jeremiah 2:33
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Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,

Jeremiah 2:23
How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course.

Jeremiah 2:32
Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me days without number.

Jeremiah 2:34
And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before.

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Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,

why

Jeremiah 2:23,36 How canst thou say: I am not polluted, I have not walked after Baalim? see thy ways in the valley, know what thou hast done: as a swift runner pursuing his course. . . .

Jeremiah 3:1,2 It is commonly said: If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and marry another man, shall he return to her any more? shall not that woman be polluted, and defiled? but thou hast prostituted thyself to many lovers: nevertheless return to me, saith the Lord, and I will receive thee. . . .

Isaiah 57:7-10 Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims. . . .

Hosea 2:5-7,13 For their mother hath committed fornication, she that conceived them is covered with shame: for she said: I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread, and my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink. . . .

hast

2 Chronicles 33:9 So Manasses seduced Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do evil beyond all the nations, which the Lord had destroyed before the face of the children of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:27,47,51,52 Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and will take away thy justification: and I will deliver thee up to the will of the daughters of the Philistines that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy wicked way. . . .

Context
Israel's Unfaithfulness
32Will a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride her stomacher? but my people hath forgotten me days without number. 33Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,34And in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor and innocent? not in ditches have I found them, but in all places, which I mentioned before.…
Lexicon
How
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

skillfully
תֵּיטִ֥בִי (tê·ṭi·ḇî)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3190: To be good, well, glad, or pleasing

you pursue
לְבַקֵּ֣שׁ (lə·ḇaq·qêš)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1245: To search out, to strive after

love;
אַהֲבָ֑ה (’a·hă·ḇāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 160: Love (noun)

even
גַּ֣ם (gam)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

the most immoral of women
הָרָע֔וֹת (hā·rā·‘ō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil

could learn
לִמַּ֖דְתְּ (lim·maḏt)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3925: To exercise in, learn

from your ways.
דְּרָכָֽיִךְ׃ (də·rā·ḵā·yiḵ)
Noun - common plural construct | second person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action


Additional Translations
How skillfully you pursue love; even the most immoral of women could learn from your ways.Why trim you your way to seek love? therefore have you also taught the wicked ones your ways.

How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

What fair device wilt thou yet employ in thy ways, so as to seek love? it shall not be so; moreover thou has done wickedly in corrupting thy ways;

How dost thou trim thy way to seek love! Therefore hast thou also accustomed thy ways to wickedness.

How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.

What -- dost thou make pleasing thy ways to seek love? Therefore even the wicked thou hast taught thy ways.
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