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How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.
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Effort in the Wrong Direction
Commentators explain that the phrase "trim your way" is used with deep irony. Israel was diligently working, not to genuinely amend their ways and return to God, but to make their sinful path more effective for seeking "love" from foreign nations and their idols. It's a warning against religious-looking efforts that are actually aimed at deepening sin.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Why trimmest thou thy way – literally, “Why do you make your way good?” a phrase used here of the pains taken by the Jews to learn …
19th Century
Anglican
Why trimmest thou thy way ...? — The verb is the same as that rendered “amend” in Jeremiah 7:3, 7:5, and was pro…
Baptist
God's ancient people had so completely turned away from him, and wandered so far from him, that they had practiced all manner of evil in order to p…
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16th Century
Protestant
This verse is explained differently, but the Prophet simply means that the Jews were like lascivious women. These women not only despise their husb…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Why do you trim your way to seek love ? &c.] To seek the love, and gain the affections and esteem, of the idolatrous nati…
The nation had not been affected by the judgments of God, but sought to justify themselves. To those who make the world their home and their portio…
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13th Century
Catholic
2:36a How utterly vile you have become by repeating the same ways!
1. Here, he accuses them of crimes against their neighb…
