How skillfully you pursue love; you also teach evil women your ways.

“你怎么修饰你的道路要求爱情呢？就是恶劣的妇人你也叫她们行你的路。

“你竟然如此精于求爱之道，可把你的门径教邪恶的女人！

“你竟然如此精于求爱之道，可把你的门径教邪恶的女人！

“你们真善于求爱啊！甚至把技巧教给妓女。

你多么通晓门路，去寻求爱情！就连坏女人，你也可以把门路指教她们。

你怎麼修飾你的道路要求愛情呢？就是惡劣的婦人你也叫她們行你的路。

「你竟然如此精於求愛之道，可把你的門徑教邪惡的女人！

「你竟然如此精於求愛之道，可把你的門徑教邪惡的女人！

「你們真善於求愛啊！甚至把技巧教給妓女。

你多麼通曉門路，去尋求愛情！就連壞女人，你也可以把門路指教她們。

『你多麼精於你的路去尋求愛情啊；故此你竟把你的門路教給壞女人了。

爾治道以求寵、何其孜孜、至誨惡婦循爾之途、

爾何冶容誨淫、以爾所為、誘惑蕩子。

爾何粉飾爾途、欲求復蒙寵愛乎、爾舉動習慣作惡、

How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways.

You are very skilled at chasing after love! Even the worst of women can learn from how you act.

“ How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught your ways.

“ How you plot and scheme to win your lovers. Even an experienced prostitute could learn from you!

How well you prepare your way To seek love! Therefore even to the wicked women You have taught your ways.

“ Why do you beautify your way to seek love? Therefore you have also taught The wicked women your ways.

How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.

How skillfully you pursue love; you also teach evil women your ways.

Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

“ My, how good you have become at chasing after your lovers! Why, you could even teach prostitutes a thing or two!

How well you prepare your way to seek love! Therefore you have even taught the wicked women your ways.

You have placed your bed on a high and lofty mountain; you also went up there to offer sacrifice.You have set up your memorial behind the door and doorpost. For away from me, you stripped, went up, and made your bed wide, and you have made a bargain for yourself with them. You have loved their bed; you have gazed on their genitals.You went to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far away and sent them down even to Sheol.You became weary on your many journeys, but you did not say,“ It’s hopeless!” You found a renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.

So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

“‘ Therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and reduced your provisions. I gave you over to the desire of those who hate you, the Philistine women, who were embarrassed by your indecent conduct.

Yes, their mother is promiscuous; she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought,“ I will follow my lovers, the men who give me my food and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink.”Therefore, this is what I will do: I will block her way with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so that she cannot find her paths.She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will think,“ I will go back to my former husband, for then it was better for me than now.”

Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before all your ways were more corrupt than theirs.

If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn’t such a land become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners— can you return to me? This is the LORD’s declaration.Look to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the highways like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

How unstable you are, constantly changing your ways! You will be put to shame by Egypt just as you were put to shame by Assyria.

How can you protest,“ I am not defiled; I have not followed the Baals”? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young camel twisting and turning on her way,

But Samaria did not commit even half your sins. You have multiplied your detestable practices beyond theirs and made your sisters appear righteous by all the detestable acts you have committed.You must also bear your disgrace, since you have helped your sisters out. For they appear more righteous than you because of your sins, which you committed more detestably than they did. So you also, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous.

And I will punish her for the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense. She put on her rings and her jewelry and followed her lovers, but she forgot me. This is the LORD’s declaration.