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 brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They made him jealous with other gods, they enraged him with abhorrent idols.
Isaiah 1:20
But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword." Know for certain that the Lord has spoken.
Ezekiel 8:17
He said to me, "Do you see, son of man? Is it a trivial thing that the house of Judah commits these abominations they are practicing here? For they have filled the land with violence and provoked me to anger still further. Look, they are putting the branch to their nose!
1 Corinthians 10:22
Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?
The confusion
Jeremiah 20:11
But the Lord is with me to help me like an awe-inspiring warrior. Therefore those who persecute me will fail and will not prevail over me. They will be thoroughly disgraced because they did not succeed. Their disgrace will never be forgotten.
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our fathers until this very day our guilt has been great. Because of our iniquities we, along with our kings and priests, have been delivered over by the local kings to sword, captivity, plunder, and embarrassment -- right up to the present time.
Isaiah 45:16
They will all be ashamed and embarrassed; those who fashion idols will all be humiliated.
Daniel 9:7
"You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day -- the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.
General references
Job 35:6
If you sin, how does it affect God? If your transgressions are many, what does it do to him?