Parallel Verses

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?"

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?

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 [are] gathering wood, and the fathers [are] kindling the fire, and the women [are] kneading dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven, and they pour out libations to other gods for the sake of provoking me to anger. 19 [Are] they provoking me to anger? " {declares} Yahweh, "[Is it] not themselves [they hurt], for the sake of the shame of their faces?" 20 {Therefore} thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Look, my anger and my wrath will be poured out on this place, on the humankind, and on the animal, and on the tree of the field, and on the fruit of the ground, and it will not be extinguished."



Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made him jealous with strange [gods]; with detestable things they provoked him.

Deuteronomy 32:21-22

They annoyed me with [what is] not a god; they provoked me with their idols. So I will make them jealous with [those] not a people, with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our ancestors until this day we have been in great guilt, and because of our sins we ourselves, our kings, and our priests have been handed into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to utter shame, as it is this day.

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 you rebel, you shall be devoured [by the] sword. For the mouth of Yahweh has spoken."

Isaiah 1:24

Therefore, the declaration of the Lord Yahweh of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: "Ah, I will be relieved of my enemies, and I will avenge myself on my foes.

Isaiah 45:16

All of them are ashamed and indeed humiliated; [the] craftsmen of idols go together in insult.

Jeremiah 2:17

Did you not do this to yourself, [by] forsaking Yahweh, your God, at the time of your leading in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your wickedness will chastise you, and your apostasies will reprove you. Therefore know and see that [it is] evil and bitter, your forsaking of Yahweh, your God, and fear of me [is] not in you," {declares} the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

Jeremiah 9:19

For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion, 'How we are devastated! We are very ashamed because we have left the land, because they have overthrown our dwelling places.'

Jeremiah 20:11

But Yahweh [is] with me like a powerful warrior. {Therefore} my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. They will be very ashamed, for they will not achieve success. [Their] {everlasting insult} will not be forgotten.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man? {Was it too small a thing} for the house of Judah {to do} the detestable things that they did here? For they filled up the land [with] violence, and {they provoked me to anger again}, and look! They [are] putting the branch to their nose.

Daniel 9:7-8

"{Righteousness belongs to you, O Lord}, and on us [is] open shame, [just] as [it is] this day to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to all Israel, {those who are near and those who are far off} in all the lands [to] which you have driven them, because of their infidelity which they displayed against you.

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