Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
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Gill's Exposition
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents,.... Either of the innocent infants of poor persons, who were sacrificed to Moloch; or of the poor prophets of the Lord, whom…
Barnes' Notes
Why trimmest thou thy way - literally, “Why makest thou thy way good,” a phrase used here of the pains taken by the Jews to learn the idolatries of foreign nations. The wicked ones ... - Or,…
The prophet here goes on in the same strain, aiming to bring a sinful people to repentance, that their destruction might be prevented.
I. He avers the truth of the charge. It was evident beyond…
Cambridge Bible
How trimmest thou thy way lit. How thou makest thy way good!i.e. How cleverly thou goest about (to reach an immoral object)!
even the wicked women, etc.] even experts in immorality can learn fresh…
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