Jeremiah 7:19

WEB

¹⁹Do they provoke me to anger?” says the LORD. “Don’t they provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”

KJV

¹⁹Do they provoke me to anger^[+]? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

BSB

¹⁹But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

FBV

¹⁹But is it really me they're hurting? declares the Lord. Aren't they really hurting themselves and bringing shame on themselves?

Extra References

Daniel 9:7-8

⁷“Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you. ⁸Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

¹⁷Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger. Behold, they put the branch to their nose. ¹⁸Therefore I will also deal in wrath. My eye won’t spare, neither will I have pity. Though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.”

Jeremiah 20:11

¹¹But the LORD is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

1 Corinthians 10:22

²²Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Jeremiah 9:19

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.’”

Jeremiah 2:19

¹⁹“^[+] Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, GOD ^[+] of Armies.

Job 35:6

⁶If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Isaiah 1:20

²⁰but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured with the sword; for the LORD’s mouth has spoken it.”

Ezra 9:7

⁷Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty to this day; and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

Deuteronomy 32:16

¹⁶They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.