Jeremiah 2:33 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Jeremiah 2:33 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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,...
Jeremiah 2:33 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way to (u) seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. (u) With strangers.
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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 tha...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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.
Jeremiah 2:33 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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 direct...
Jeremiah 2:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. Why trimmest thou thy way - Ye have used a multitude of artifices to gain alliances with the neighbor...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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 2...
Jeremiah 2:33 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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 i...
Jeremiah 2:33 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER II THE TRUST IN THE SHADOW OF EGYPT Jeremiah 2:1-37 ; Jeremiah 3:1-5 THE first of the prophet's public addresses is, in fact, a sermon which proceeds from an exposure of national sin...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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 Prop...
Jeremiah 2:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 t...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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 dos...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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 t...
Jeremiah 2:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulations with Israel. B. C. 629. 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have...
Jeremiah 2:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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...
Jeremiah 2:33 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

YHWH Challenges His People To Explain Why They Are Behaving As They Are ( Jeremiah 2:29-37 ). YHWH now asks them why they are troubling Him with arguments in their favour when all they had previou...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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 a...
Jeremiah 2:33 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:20-26 . 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...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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?” Spea...
Jeremiah 2:33 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 v...
Jeremiah 2:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Guilt Established
Jeremiah 2:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 33:9 ; Ezekiel 16:27 ; Ezekiel 16:47 ; Ezekiel 16:51 ; Ezekiel 16:52 ; Hosea 2:13 ; Hosea 2:5-7 ; Isaiah 57:7-10 ; Jeremiah 2:23 ; Jeremiah 2:36 ; Jeremiah 3:1 ; Jeremiah 3:2...
Jeremiah 2:33 - 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.

Jeremiah 2:33 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Jeremiah 2:33 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Jeremiah 2:33 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jeremiah 2:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Jeremiah 2:33 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Jeremiah 2:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Jeremiah 2:33 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Jeremiah 2:33 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Jeremiah 2:33 - The Biblical Illustrator

Jeremiah 2:33 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Jeremiah 2:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Jeremiah 2:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 2:33 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes