Jeremiah 7:19
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord, [and] not themselves, to the shame of their own faces?
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Deuteronomy 32:16They incensed him with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.
Ezra 9:7From the days of our fathers have we been in a great guiltiness even until this day; and through our iniquities have we been delivered, we, our kings, and our priests, into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to the shame of face, as it is this day.
Isaiah 1:20But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Isaiah 45:16They are ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: together shall they go to confusion that are makers of idols.
Jeremiah 2:19Thy own wickedness shall chastise thee, and thy backslidings shall correct thee; and thou shalt know and see that evil and bitter was thy forsaking the Lord thy God, while the dread of me was not upon thee, saith the Lord Eternal of hosts.
Jeremiah 9:19(9:18) For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we wasted! we are greatly ashamed; 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 →