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
Hast thou not procured this to thyself in that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.
Isaiah 1:20
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Ezekiel 8:17
Then he said to me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and lo, they put the branch to their nose.
1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
The confusion
Jeremiah 20:11
But the LORD is with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten.
Ezra 9:7
Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass to this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Isaiah 45:16
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.
Daniel 9:7
O Lord, righteousness belongeth to thee, but to us confusion of faces, as at 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 whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
General references
Job 35:6
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?