“ How well you direct your course to seek love! So that even to wicked women you have taught 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 you plot and scheme to win your lovers. Even an experienced prostitute could learn from you!

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

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.

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.You journeyed to the king with oil and multiplied your perfumes; you sent your envoys far off, and sent down even to Sheol.You were wearied with the length of your way, but you did not say,“ It is hopeless”; you found new life for your strength, and so you were not faint.

Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.

Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you and diminished your allotted portion and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.

For their mother has played the whore; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said,‘ I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say,‘ I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’

Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways.

“ If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the Lord.Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see! Where have you not been ravished? By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers like an Arab in the wilderness. You have polluted the land with your vile whoredom.

How much you go about, changing your way! You shall be put to shame by Egypt as you were put to shame by Assyria.

How can you say,‘ I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals’? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done— a restless young camel running here and there,

Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.

And I will punish her for the feast days of the Baals when she burned offerings to them and adorned herself with her ring and jewelry, and went after her lovers and forgot me, declares the Lord.