Catholic Public Domain Version
"Why are you striving to claim that your way is good, as if to seek my love, when all the while you are also displaying your malice by your own way, "
— Jeremiah 2:33, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.”
“How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways. ”
“How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.”
““My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!”
“Why dost thou endeavour to shew thy way good to seek my love, thou who hast also taught thy malices to be thy ways,”
“With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.”
“Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.”
I have struck your children to no effect; they have not accepted discipline. Your own sword has devoured your prophets. Your generation is like a raging lion.
Consider the word of the Lord. Have I become like a wilderness to Israel, or like a land late to bear fruit? Then why have my people said, ‘We are withdrawing; we will no longer approach you’?
Can a virgin forget her ornament, or a bride the covering across her breast? Yet truly, my people have forgotten me, for innumerable days.
Why are you striving to claim that your way is good, as if to seek my love, when all the while you are also displaying your malice by your own way,
and in your armpits there is found the blood of poor and innocent souls? I have found them, not in ditches, but everywhere that I mentioned previously.
And you have said: ‘I am innocent and without sin. And because of this, let your fury be turned away from me.’ Behold, I will contend with you in judgment, because you have said: ‘I have not sinned.’
How exceedingly vile you have become, repeating your ways again and again! And so, you will be ashamed of Egypt, just as you were ashamed of Assur.