'Provocation' in the Bible

“The Lord saw this, and spurned themBecause of the provocation of His sons and daughters.

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy,That their adversaries would misjudge,That they would say, “Our hand is triumphant,And the Lord has not done all this.”’

Do not consider your maidservant as a worthless woman, for I have spoken until now out of my great concern and provocation.”

and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have made Israel sin.

“Surely mockers are with me,And my eye gazes on their provocation.

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

“Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face,

When I had brought them into the land which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered there their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their soothing aroma and there they poured out their drink offerings.