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 yourself by abandoning Jehovah your God when he led you on his way.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols.
Isaiah 1:20
Refuse and rebel and swords will devour you. Jehovah has spoken.
Ezekiel 8:17
Jehovah said to me: Mortal man, do you see that? These people of Judah are not satisfied with merely doing all the disgusting things you have seen here and with spreading violence throughout the country. No, they must come and do them right here in the Temple and make me even angrier. Look how they insult me in the most offensive way possible by thrusting the shoot to my nose! (an obsene reference or jesture to Jehovah)
1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke Jehovah to rivalry (indignation) (anger)? Are we stronger than he?
The confusion
Jeremiah 20:11
Jehovah is with me like a powerful champion. Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. They will be utterly ashamed! They have failed with an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.
Ezra 9:7
From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners. Because of our sins, the kings of the lands captured us. We were given to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.
Isaiah 45:16
The makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced. They will go off into disgrace together.
Daniel 9:7
O Jehovah, righteousness belongs to you! Shame belongs to us this day! To the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
General references
Job 35:6
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?