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Verse Jeremiah 2:33. _WHY TRIMMEST THOU THY WAY_] Ye have used a
multitude of artifices to gain alliances with the neighbouring
idolatrous nations.
_HAST THOU ALSO TAUGHT THE WICKED ONES THY WAYS._]...
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WHY TRIMMEST THOU THY WAY - literally, “Why makest thou thy way
good,” a phrase used here of the pains taken by the Jews to learn
the idolatries of foreign nations.
THE WICKED ONES ... - Or, “therefo...
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CHAPTER S 2:1-3:5
Expostulation and Impeachment
_ 1. His love and kindness to Jerusalem (Jeremiah 2:1) _
2. The unfaithful people (Jeremiah 2:4)
3. The two evils and the results (Jeremiah 2:12)...
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THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT. Israel's sorrows are well deserved, for
Yahweh's love has been forgotten. In spite of wrong-doing, there is no
penitence for sin. The help of Egypt will be as futile as that o...
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Israel's disregard of Jehovah's past favours
31. _O generation, see ye_ O GENERATION THAT YE ARE, SEE.
_a wilderness_ Have I been like a place where ye lacked sustenance?
Not so. Cp. Hosea 2:8.
_thi...
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_How trimmest thou thy way_ lit. _How thou makest thy way good!_i.e.
How cleverly thou goest about (to reach an immoral object)!
_even the wicked women, etc_.] even experts in immorality can learn
fr...
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WHY TRIMMEST THOU THY WAY— Houbigant renders this verse, _Why dost
thou strew thy way, that thou mayest find lovers? And teachest thy
ways to thy companions?_ The meaning of the original word תיטבי
_t...
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E. Pungent Argument Jeremiah 2:29-37
TRANSLATION
(29) Why do you continue to complain to Me? All of you have
transgressed against Me (oracle of the LORD). (30) In vain I have
smitten your sons; they...
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Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also
taught the wicked ones thy ways.
WHY TRIMMEST? Maurer translates, 'How skillfully thou dost prepare
thy way,' etc. But see , "When...
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JEREMIAH'S SECOND PROPHECY (2:1-3:5)
The prophet expostulates with Israel because of their unfaithfulness
to Jehovah.
1-13. Under the figure of the marriage relation Jehovah reminds the
people of Hi...
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Why art thou so careful in thy devotion to strange gods? In so doing
thou hast made wicked ways to be a second nature to thee (or, thou
hast taught the wicked women thy ways)....
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WHY TRIMMEST THOU THY WAY...? — The verb is the same as that
rendered _“_amend” in Jeremiah 7:3; Jeremiah 7:5, and was probably
often on the lips of those who made a show of reformation. Here it is
us...
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מַה ־תֵּיטִ֥בִי דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ לְ
בַקֵּ֣שׁ אַהֲבָ֑ה...
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CHAPTER II
THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT
Jeremiah 2:1; Jeremiah 3:1
THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon
which proceeds from an exposure of national sin to the menace...
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The first movement in commissioning the called man now commences. He
was commanded to utter a great impeachment in the ears of Jerusalem.
This impeachment was threefold. It first declared how Israel h...
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Why trimmest thou thy way to (u) seek love? therefore hast thou also
taught the wicked ones thy ways.
(u) With strangers....
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_Thou who. Hebrew, "Therefore have I." (Calmet) --- Protestants, "hast
thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways." (Haydock) --- Thou hast
opened a school of vice._...
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Never surely, was there afforded a more lively instance of the
gracious purpose of God's unalterable love to his people, than what
this Chapter affords, from beginning to end. The Lord sends the
Proph...
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This verse is differently explained: but the Prophet simply means;
that the Jews were like lascivious women, who not only despise their
husbands at home, but ramble here and there in all directions, a...
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Chapter 2 contains a most touching appeal to the people at Jerusalem.
It requires no explanation, but deserves the heart's serious
attention. It testifies in the most striking manner to the kindness
a...
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WHY TRIMMEST THOU THY WAY TO SEEK LOVE?.... To seek the love, and gain
the affections and esteem, of the idolatrous nations; as a lascivious
woman dresses herself out in the best manner to excite the...
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Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also
taught the wicked ones thy ways.
Ver. 33. _Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love?_] _Cur bonificas?_
so Calvin rendereth it why dost...
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_Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love_ “The prophet,” says
Lowth, “alludes to the practices of common harlots, who deck
themselves, and use all inveigling arts, that they may recommend
themselves to...
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THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
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Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? Israel decking herself like a
harlot to accomplish her ends. THEREFORE HAST THOU ALSO TAUGHT THE
WICKED ONES THY WAYS. As wicked as the Gentiles were in themsel...
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29-37 The nation had not been wrought upon by the judgements of God,
but sought to justify themselves. The world is, to those who make it
their home and their portion, a wilderness and a land of dark...
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WHY TRIMMEST, or _deckest_, EZEKIEL 23:40, thinking thereby to entice
others to thy help? thus is the word used, JEREMIAH 4:30. Or, Why dost
thou use so much art and skill, and take so much pains, to...
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Jeremiah 2:33 beautify H3190 (H8686) way H1870 seek H1245 (H8763) love
H160 taught H3925 (H8765) women...
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YHWH CHALLENGES HIS PEOPLE TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY ARE BEHAVING AS THEY
ARE (JEREMIAH 2:29).
YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their
favour when all they had previously done...
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Jeremiah 2:20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy
bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high
hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the har...
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CONTENTS: First message to backslidden Judah concerning their
ingratitude to God and wickedness against Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah.
CONCLUSION: It is a great affront to God to neglect Him and for...
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Jeremiah 2:2. _I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth._ God now
addressed them, that he might do the same to the children as he had
done to the fathers, and rejoice over them as the bridegroom rej...
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_Have I been a wilderness unto Israel?_
DIVINE QUESTIONS
The people were required to answer two questions: “Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? have I been a land of darkness unto Israel?”
Speak ou...
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CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY. Most probably in
thirteenth Josiah, quickly after his call. Dr. Dahler (Stratsbourg)
would interpose Chapter s 4, 5, 6; deferring this chapter till after...
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EXPOSITION
The second chapter forms the introduction of a group of discourses
(Jeremiah 2-6), which should be read together. It is called By Ewald
(and the position of the prophecy favors this view) t...
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Go and cry in the
ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD (Jeremiah 2:1-2);
Now this is the first message that he has to deliver. As God is
cal...
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2 Chronicles 33:9; Ezekiel 16:27; Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 16:51;...
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Trimmest — Or, deckest, Ezekiel 23:40, thinking thereby to entice
others to thy help. Taught — Nations that have been vile enough of
themselves, by thy example are become more vile....