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Jer. 2:33 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Jer. 2:23,36• ²³{i}How sayest thou, I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Baals? See thy way in the valley, acknowledge what thou hast done—a swift dromedary traversing her ways!{/i}
³⁶{i}Why dost thou gad about so much, and change thy way? Thou shalt also be brought to shame by Egypt, as thou wast brought to shame by Assyria.{/i} (Jer. 2:23,36)

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Jer. 3:1‑2• ¹{i}They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? Would not that land be utterly polluted? But thou hast committed fornication with many lovers; yet return to me, saith Jehovah.{/i}
²{i}Lift up thine eyes unto the heights and see, where hast thou not been lain with? In the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arab in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy fornications and with thy wickedness.{/i} (Jer. 3:1‑2)

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Isa. 57:7‑10• ⁷Upon a high and lofty mountain hast thou set thy bed: thither also wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
⁸And behind the doors and the posts hast thou set up thy memorial: for thou hast uncovered [thyself] apart from me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee [a covenant] with them; thou lovedst their bed, thou sawest their nakedness.
⁹And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thine ambassadors far off, and didst debase [thyself] unto Sheol.
¹⁰Thou wast wearied with the length of thy way; thou saidst not, There is no hope. Thou didst find a quickening of thy strength; therefore thou wast not faint. (Isa. 57:7‑10)

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Hos. 2:5‑7,13• ⁵because their mother hath committed lewdness, their parent hath acted shamefully; for she said, I will follow my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my wine.
⁶Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and raise a wall, that she may not find her paths.
⁷And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.
¹³And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, {i}and decked herself with her rings and jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith Jehovah.{/i} (Hos. 2:5‑7,13)

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2 Chron. 33:9• ⁹{i}And Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations that Jehovah had destroyed from before the children of Israel.{/i} (2 Chron. 33:9)

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Ezek. 16:27,47,51‑52• ²⁷{i}And behold, I stretched out my hand over thee, and diminished thine appointed portion; and I gave thee over unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who were confounded at thy lewd way.{/i}
⁴⁷Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
⁵¹Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
⁵²Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. (Ezek. 16:27,47,51‑52)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)