Jeremiah 7:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Is it I whom they provoke? says the Lord. Is it not themselves, to their own hurt? More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Am I the One Whom they provoke to anger? says the Lord. Is it not themselves [whom they provoke], to their own confusion and vexation and to their own shame? American Standard Version (1901) Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? Common English Bible But am I the one they are really offending? declares the LORD. Aren’t they in fact humiliating themselves? Catholic Public Domain Version But are they provoking me to anger, says the Lord? Are they not provoking themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? Is it not themselves, to the confusion of their countenance? |
From the days of our ancestors to this day we have been deep in guilt, and for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as is now the case.
If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Therefore says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Surely I will pour out my wrath on my enemies and avenge myself on my foes!
All of them are put to shame and confounded; the makers of idols go in disgrace together.
She who bore seven has languished; she has swooned away; her sun went down while it was yet day; she has been shamed and disgraced. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, says the Lord.
Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, while he led you in the way?
Your wickedness will punish you, and your faithlessness will convict 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, says the Lord God of hosts.
But the Lord is with me like a terrifying warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they will not prevail. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.
The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and dismayed because of all your wickedness.
Yet you did not listen to me, says the Lord, and so you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.
Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our ancestors, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”
because of the wickedness that they committed, provoking me to anger, in that they went to make offerings to and serve other gods that they had not known, neither they, nor you, nor your ancestors.
Listen! The cry of the daughter of my people from far and wide in the land: “Is the Lord not in Zion? Is her King not in her?” (“Why have they provoked me to anger with their images, with their foreign idols?”)
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.”
You prostituted yourself with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, multiplying your prostitution, to provoke me to anger.
They made him jealous with strange gods; with abhorrent things they provoked him.