Jeremiah 7:19
Do they provoke me to anger? says LORD, [and] not themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
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Deuteronomy 32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. With abominations they provoked him to anger.
Ezra 9:7Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day. And for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plund
Isaiah 1:20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword, for the mouth of LORD has spoken it.
Isaiah 45:16They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them. They shall go into confusion together who are makers of idols.
Jeremiah 2:19Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee. Know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou have forsaken LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, says the Lord, L
Jeremiah 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:17-21
Punishment Predicted. ( b. c. 606.) 16 Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee. 17 Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. 19 Do they provoke me to anger?… Read the whole commentary →