Jeremiah 7:18 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁸ “The children are gathering wood, the fathers are lighting the fire, and the women are kneading their dough, to make cakes for the sovereigness of the heavens, and to pour out drink offerings to other mighty ones, to provoke Me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke Me to anger!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ The children gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make sacrificial cakes for the queen of heaven. And to offend me all the more, they pour out drink offerings to foreign gods.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ The sons gather the wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the wives spread the grease, so as to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to offer libations to strange gods, and so as to provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 7:18 Cross References

1 Kings 14:9

but you have done more evil than all who were before you, for you have gone and made for yourself other mighty ones and moulded images to provoke Me, and have cast Me behind your back –

1 Kings 16:2

“Because I raised you up out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Yisra’ĕ

Psalm 16:4

The sorrows of those who run after another one are increased; I would not pour out their drink offerings of blood, Nor take up their names on my lips.

Isaiah 3:8

For Yerushalayim has stumbled, and Yehuḏ

Isaiah 57:6

“Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they, are your lot! Also to them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a grain offering. Am I comforted in these?

Isaiah 65:11

“But you are those who forsake יהוה, who forget My set-apart mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, and who fill a drink offering for Meni.

Isaiah 65:3

the people who provoke Me continually to My face, who slaughter in gardens, and burn incense on altars of brick;

Jeremiah 1:16

“And I shall pronounce My judgments against them concerning all their evil, because they have forsaken Me, burned incense to other mighty ones, and bowed themselves to the works of their own hands.

Jeremiah 11:17

“And יהוה  of hosts, who planted you, has spoken evil against you for the evil of the house of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their Ashĕ

Jeremiah 19:13

“And the houses of Yerushalayim and the houses of the sovereigns of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 25:7

“But you did not listen to Me,” declares יהוה, “so as to provoke Me with the works of your hands, for your own evil.

Jeremiah 32:29

“And the Chaldeans who fight against this city shall come and set fire to this city and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baʽ

Jeremiah 44:25

“Thus spoke יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 44:4

‘And I sent to you all My servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, “Please do not do this abominable matter that I hate!”

Jeremiah 7:17

“Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Yehuḏ

Lamentations 5:13

They have taken young men to grind, And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

Ezekiel 16:26

“And you whored with the sons of Mitsrayim, your neighbours, great of flesh. And you increased your whorings to provoke Me.

Ezekiel 20:28

“When I brought them into the land for which I had lifted My hand in an oath to give them, and they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, they offered their slaughterings there and provoked Me with their offerings there. And they sent up their sweet fragrance there and poured out their drink offerings there.

Ezekiel 8:16

And He brought me into the inner court of the House of יהוה. And there, at the door of the Hĕ

Ezekiel 8:17

And He said to me, “Have you seen, O son of man? Is it a small matter to the house of Yehuḏ

1 Corinthians 10:22

Do we provoke the Master to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Deuteronomy 32:16

“They moved Him to jealousy with foreign matters, With abominations they provoked Him.

Deuteronomy 32:21

“They made Me jealous by what is not Ě

Deuteronomy 4:19

and lest you lift up your eyes to the heavens, and shall see the sun, and the moon, and the stars – all the host of the heavens – and you be drawn away into bowing down to them and serving them, which יהוה  your Elohim has allotted to all the peoples under all the heavens.