Jeremiah 7:19

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Summary

Jeremiah 7:19

Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

They provoke

1 Corinthians 10:22

The confusion

General references

Job 35:6

Bible References

They provoke

Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

The honour which was his they gave to strange gods; by their disgusting ways he was moved to wrath.

But if your hearts are turned against me, I will send destruction on you by the sword; so the Lord has said.

Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? is it a small thing to the children of Judah that they do the disgusting things which they are doing here? for they have made the land full of violent behaviour, making me angry again and again: and see, they put the branch to my nose.

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

The confusion

But the Lord is with me as a great one, greatly to be feared: so my attackers will have a fall, and they will not overcome me: they will be greatly shamed, because they have not done wisely, even with an unending shame, kept in memory for ever.

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.

O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

General references

If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?