33 How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.
33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
33 "How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.
33 "What an impressive start you made to get the most out of life. You founded schools of sin, taught graduate courses in evil!
33 "Why do you beautify your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught The wicked women your ways.
33 "How you plot and scheme to win your lovers. Even an experienced prostitute could learn from you!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Jeremiah 2:33
Commentary on Jeremiah 2:29-37
(Read Jeremiah 2:29-37)
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 darkness; but those who dwell in God, have the lines fallen to them in pleasant places. Here is the language of presumptuous sinners. The Jews had long thrown off serious thoughts of God. How many days of our lives pass without suitable remembrance of him! The Lord was displeased with their confidences, and would not prosper them therein. Men employ all their ingenuity, but cannot find happiness in the way of sin, or excuse for it. They may shift from one sin to another, but none ever hardened himself against God, or turned from him, and prospered.