Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

But are they really provoking Me?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace?”

International Standard Version

Are they provoking me?" asks the LORD. "Is it not themselves, and to their own shame?"

A Conservative Version

Do they provoke me to anger? says LORD, [and] not themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

American Standard Version

Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Amplified

Do they offend and provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Is it not themselves [they offend], to their own shame?”

Bible in Basic English

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

Darby Translation

Is it I whom they provoke to anger? saith Jehovah; is it not themselves, to the shame of their own face?

Julia Smith Translation

Are they irritating me? says Jehovah. Are they not themselves to the shame of their faces?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

[Are] they provoking me to anger? " {declares} Yahweh, "[Is it] not themselves [they hurt], for the sake of the shame of their faces?"

Modern King James verseion

Do they vex Me? says Jehovah. Is it not themselves, to the shame of their own faces?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Howbeit, they hurt not me," sayeth the LORD, "but rather confound, and shame themselves."

NET Bible

But I am not really the one being troubled!" says the Lord. "Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!

New Heart English Bible

Do they provoke me to anger?" says the LORD. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?"

The Emphasized Bible

Is it me, they are provoking? Enquireth Yahweh, - Is it not themselves, - unto the shame of their own faces?

Webster

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

World English Bible

Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Youngs Literal Translation

Me are they provoking to anger? an affirmation of Jehovah, Is it not themselves, For the shame of their own faces?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Do they provoke me to anger
כּעס 
Ka`ac 
Usage: 55

נאם 
N@'um 
Usage: 376

the Lord

Usage: 0

בּשׁת 
Bosheth 
Usage: 30

References

Context Readings

Do Not Pray For Judah

18 The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger. 19 Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?” 20 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: behold, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, upon man and beast, upon the trees of the field and the fruit of the ground; it will burn and not be quenched."

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:22

Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Deuteronomy 32:16

They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:21-22

They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.

Job 35:6

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

Isaiah 1:20

but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be eaten by the sword; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

Isaiah 1:24

Therefore the Lord declares, the LORD of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will get relief from my enemies and avenge myself on my foes.

Isaiah 45:16

All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in confusion together.

Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the LORD your God, when he led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your evil will chastise you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the LORD your God; the fear of me is not in you, declares the Lord GOD of hosts.

Jeremiah 9:19

For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion: 'How we are ruined! We are utterly shamed, because we have left the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.'"

Jeremiah 20:11

But the LORD is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Daniel 9:7-8

To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you.

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