Deuteronomy 32:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Moved me

Deuteronomy 32:16

Psalm 78:58

With their vanities

I will

1 Peter 2:9

Bible References

Moved me

“They made Him jealous with strange gods;

With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

For they provoked Him with their high places
And aroused His jealousy with their graven images.

With their vanities

You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

for all the sins of Baasha and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned and which they made Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel to anger with their idols.

I hate those who regard vain idols,
But I trust in the Lord.

Behold, listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not within her?”
“Why have they provoked Me with their graven images, with foreign

idols?”

But they are altogether stupid and foolish
In their discipline of delusion—their idol is wood!

Are there any among the

idols of the nations who give rain?

Or can the heavens grant showers?
Is it not You, O Lord our God?
Therefore we

hope in You,

For You are the one who has done all these things.

“Those who regard vain idols
Forsake their faithfulness,

And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as He did upon us at the beginning.

I will

Yet the number of the sons of Israel

Will be like the sand of the sea,
Which cannot be measured or numbered;
And in the place
Where it is said to them,
“You are not My people,”
It will be said to them,
“You are the sons of the living God.”

As He says also in Hosea,
“I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’
And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’”

But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says,
“I will

make you jealous by that which is not a nation,

By a nation without understanding will I anger you.”

I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a

holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;