Jeremiah 7:19
Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? Is it not themselves, to the confusion of their contenance?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
Ezra 9:7From the days of our fathers: and we ourselves also have sinned grievously unto this day, and for our iniquities we 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 spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is at this day.
Isaiah 1:20But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 45:16They are all confounded and ashamed: the forgers of errors are gone together into confusion.
Jeremiah 2:19Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord the God of hosts.
Jeremiah 9:19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Sion: How are we wasted and greatly confounded? because we have left the land, because our dwellings are cast down.
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 →