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 angered him with strange gods, and with abominations provoked him.

And so they grieved him with their high places, and provoked him with their images.

With their vanities

Neither turn ye after vain things which can not deliver you, for they are but vanities.

for all the sins of Baasha and sins of Elah his son, wherewith they sinned and made Israel sin, to anger the LORD of Israel with their vanities.

I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities, and my trust hath been in the LORD.

for lo, the voice of the crying of my people is heard from a far country: "Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not the king in her?" "Wherefore then have they grieved me," shall the LORD say, "with their images and foolish strange fashions?"

They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

Are there any among the gods of the Gentiles, that send rain or give the showers of heaven? Dost not thou it, O LORD our God, in whom we trust? Yea LORD, thou dost all these things."

They that observe vain vanities, have forsaken him that was merciful unto them.

And as I began to preach, the holy ghost fell on them, as he did on us at the beginning.

I will

And though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, which can neither be measured nor told: yet in the place where it is said unto them, 'Ye be not my people': even there shall it be thus reported of them, 'They be the children of the living God.'

As he saith in Hosea, "I will call them my people which were not my people: and her beloved which was not beloved."

But I demand whether Israel did know or not? First Moses saith, "I will provoke you for to envy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you."

I say then, Have they therefore stumbled that they should but fall only? God forbid: but through their fall is salvation happened unto the gentiles for to provoke them withal.

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a peculiar people, that ye should show the virtues of him that called you out of darkness into his marvelous light,