Jeremiah 2:33 - Exposition

Why trimmest thou thy way I rather , How well thou contrivest thy way , etc.? Therefore hast thou also taught , etc. The meaning which floated before our trans-labors seems to be this: " so utterly immoral is thy course of life, that even the worst of women ['wicked ones' is in the feminine] have been able to learn something from thee". But a more natural rendering is, "Therefore [i.e. to gain thine ends] thou hast accustomed thy ways to those evil things." Nemo repente fuit tupissimus . It required a deliberate "accustoming," or "training" (such is the literal meaning of limad ), to produce such a habit ( ἕξις ) as is here rebuked.