Deuteronomy 32:21

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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 provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.

they angered him with their high places and with their carved images they made him jealous.

With their vanities

Don't turn aside after useless things that cannot profit or deliver because they're useless.

because of all the sins that Baasha and his son Elah had committed and because of what they did to lead Israel into sin, thus provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their idolatry.

I despise those who trust vain idols; but I have trusted in the LORD.

Listen! My people cry from a distant land: "Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her king no longer there?" "Why did they provoke me to anger with their images, with their worthless foreign gods?"

Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece of wood!

Can any of the worthless gods of the nations make it rain? Can the heavens themselves bring forth showers? Aren't you the one who does this, LORD our God? So we hope in you, for you are the one who does all these things.

Those who cling to vain idols leave behind the gracious love that could have been theirs.

"When I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he was first given to us.

I will

Despite this, the number of the people of Israel will be like ocean sand, which can neither be measured nor counted. And the time will come when instead of it being said, "You are not my people,' it will be said, "You are children of the living God.'

As the Scripture says in Hosea, "Those who are not my people I will call my people, and the one who was not loved I will call my loved one.

Again I ask, "Did Israel not understand?" Moses was the first to say, "I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that doesn't understand."

And so I ask, "They have not stumbled so as to fall, have they?" Of course not! On the contrary, because of their stumbling, salvation has come to the gentiles to make the Jews jealous.

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people to be his very own and to proclaim the wonderful deeds of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.