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 moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.

With their vanities

Don't turn aside; for [then you would go] after vain things which can't profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

for all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, which they sinned, and with which they made Israel to sin, to provoke Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.

I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.

Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: isn't Yahweh in Zion? Isn't her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their engraved images, and with foreign vanities?

But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, Yahweh our God? therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them, even as on us at the beginning.

I will

Yet the number of the children of Israel will be as the sand of the sea, which can't be measured nor numbered; and it will come to pass that, in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' they will be called 'sons of the living God.'

As he says also in Hosea, "I will call them 'my people,' which were not my people; and her 'beloved,' who was not beloved."

But I ask, didn't Israel know? First Moses says, "I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry."

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: