Isaiah 3:8

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Summary

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Jerusalem

Because

To provoke

1 Corinthians 10:22

Bible References

Jerusalem

Wherefore, the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they defeated him and carried away from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who inflicted him with heavy casualties.

Therefore the Lord brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.

Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

The crown has fallen from our head;

Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Therefore, on account of you

Zion will be plowed as a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

Because

Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood,
And sin as if with cart ropes;

“Against whom do you jest?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of rebellion,
Offspring of deceit,

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;
They speak from on high.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’

They turn, but not upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword
Because of the

insolence of their tongue.

This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

“Your words have been arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

To provoke

A people who continually provoke Me to My face,
Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;

He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

And behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the appearance which I saw in the plain.

Your eyes are too pure to approve evil,
And You can not look on wickedness with favor.
Why do You look with favor
On those who deal treacherously?
Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up
Those more righteous than they?

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?