George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 2:33
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.
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.
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._]...
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...
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)...
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...
LOVE. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), for the object loved. Compare Jeremiah 2:23. ONES. Here "wicked" is Feminine. wicked women....
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
מַה ־תֵּיטִ֥בִי דַּרְכֵּ֖ךְ לְ בַקֵּ֣שׁ אַהֲבָ֑ה...
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...
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...
Why trimmest thou thy way to (u) seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways. (u) With strangers....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
THE GUILT ESTABLISHED...
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...
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...
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...
Jeremiah 2:33 beautify H3190 (H8686) way H1870 seek H1245 (H8763) love H160 taught H3925 (H8765) women...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
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...
2 Chronicles 33:9; Ezekiel 16:27; Ezekiel 16:47; Ezekiel 16:51;...
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....