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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:33

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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See also Jeremiah 2:33 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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._]...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    LOVE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the object loved. Compare Jeremiah 2:23. ONES. Here "wicked" is Feminine. wicked women....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מַה ־תֵּיטִ֥בִי דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ לְ בַקֵּ֣שׁ אַהֲבָ֑ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Why trimmest thou thy way to (u) seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. (u) With strangers....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _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._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Jeremiah 2:33 beautify H3190 (H8686) way H1870 seek H1245 (H8763) love H160 taught H3925 (H8765) women...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 33:9; Ezekiel 16:27; Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 16:51;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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....

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