Jeremiah 2:33 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

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 thou make good thy way? that is, set a good gloss upon it, even the best side outwards. The same word is used of Jezebel's dressing her head. 2Ki 9:30 What need this whorish trick and trimming, if all were right with thee?

Iactas vaenales, quas vis obtrudere, merces.

Therefore also hast thou taught the wicked ones thy way.] Heb., The wicked women - for the word is feminine - those she-sinners may learn immodesty of thee, who are meretricissimae. And for this it is that thou art pointed at with the finger as it were. Jer 2:34-35

Jeremiah 2:33

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