Jeremiah 7:19
But are they provoking me to anger, says the Lord? Are they not provoking themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked him with strange gods, and they stirred him to anger by their abominations.
Ezra 9:7from the days of our fathers. But also, we ourselves have sinned gravely, even to this day. And for our iniquities, we ourselves, and our kings and our priests, have been delivered into the hands of the kings of the lands, and to the sword, and to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, just as it is also in this day.
Isaiah 1:20But if you are not willing, and you provoke me to anger, then the sword will devour you. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 45:16They have all been confounded and should be ashamed! These fabricators of errors have departed together into confusion!
Jeremiah 2:19Your own malice will reprove you, and your own apostasy will rebuke you! But know and perceive this: it is an evil and bitter thing for you to forsake the Lord your God, and to be without my fear within you, says the Lord, the God of hosts.
Jeremiah 9:19For a voice of lamentation has been heard from Zion: ‘How is it that we have been devastated and greatly confounded? Our tabernacles have been thrown down because we have forsaken the land.’”
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 →