"Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: {do they} not {provoke} themselves to the confusion of their own faces?" — Jeremiah 7:19

Jeremiah 7:19 · KJV

“Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: {do they} not {provoke} themselves to the confusion of their own faces?”

— Jeremiah 7:19

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. {queen...: or, frame, or, workmanship of heaven}

Verse 20

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

Jeremiah 7 — Context

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: {do they} not {provoke} themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

Cross References

Jeremiah 20:11

But the LORD {is} with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: {their} everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen {this}, O 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. {Is it...: or, Is there any thing lighter than to commit}

Job 35:6

If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or {if} thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

Daniel 9:7-8

O Lord, righteousness {belongeth} unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, {that are} near, and {that are} far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. {belongeth...: or, thou hast}

Jeremiah 9:19

For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast {us} out.

Jeremiah 2:19

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that {it is} an evil {thing} and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear {is} not in thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

1 Corinthians 10:22

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Deuteronomy 32:16

They provoked him to jealousy with strange {gods}, with abominations provoked they him to anger.