Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
The confusion
General references
Bible References
They provoke
Jeremiah 2:17
You have done this to yourselves, have you not, by forsaking the LORD your God, when he is the one who led you on the way?
Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.
Isaiah 1:20
but if you refuse and rebel, you'll be devoured by the sword, because the LORD has spoken."
Ezekiel 8:17
"Do you see this, Son of Man?" he asked me. "Is it an insignificant thing for Judah's house to commit the detestable things that they're doing here? They've filled the land with violence and turned away from me, causing me to become angry again. Look how they're sniffing with their noses!
1 Corinthians 10:22
or you'll provoke the Lord to jealousy, won't you? Are we stronger than he is?
The confusion
Jeremiah 20:11
Butthe LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, those who pursue me will stumble and won't prevail. They'll be put to great shame, when they don't succeed. Their everlasting disgrace won't be forgotten.
Ezra 9:7
"My God, I am too ashamed and hurt to turn to you, because we're in our iniquities over our heads. Furthermore, my God, our sins have grown as high as the heavens. We have lived in great sin from the days of our ancestors even until today, and because of those iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered over to foreign kings, for execution, for captivity, for plunder, and for humiliation, as is the case today.
Isaiah 45:16
All of them will be put to shame indeed, disgraced! The makers of idols will go off in disgrace together.
Daniel 9:7
"To you, Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us, open humiliation even to this day, to the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, both those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the lands to which you drove them because of their unfaithful acts that they committed against you.
General references
Job 35:6
If you sin, what will that do to harm him? If you add transgression to transgression what will it do to him?