'Provocation' in the Bible

And Jehovah seeth and despiseth -- For the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.

put not thy handmaid before a daughter of worthlessness, for from the abundance of my meditation, and of my provocation, I have spoken hitherto.'

Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.

And will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.

Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt! and they had wrought great provocation,

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

O that my provocation were thoroughly weighed, And my calamity in balances They would lift up together!

Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Old from provocation is mine eye, It is old because of all mine adversaries,

Favour me, O Jehovah, for distress is to me, Mine eye, my soul, and my body Have become old by provocation.

Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

A provocation to his father is a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

Better to live in a land of wilderness than [with] a wife of quarrels and provocation.

Rocks are heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation outweighs them both.

For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face,

For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.

Ephraim has caused bitter provocation, and his Lord will {hold him responsible for his crimes} and pay back to him his insults.

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.