Jeremiah 7:18

Contemporary English Version 1995

Children gather firewood, their fathers build fires, and their mothers mix dough to bake bread for the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They even offer wine sacrifices to other gods, just to insult me.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:22

We would make the Lord jealous if we did this. And we are not stronger than the Lord.

1 Kings 14:9

“You have made me very angry by rejecting me and making idols out of gold. Jeroboam, you have done more evil things than any king before you.

Jeremiah 32:29

The Babylonian army is already attacking, and they will capture the city and set it on fire. The people of Jerusalem have made me angry by going up to the flat roofs of their houses and burning incense to Baal and offering wine sacrifices to other gods. Now these houses will be burned to the ground!

Jeremiah 25:7

But you refused to listen to my prophets. So I, the Lord, say that you have made me angry by worshiping idols, and you are the ones who were hurt by what you did.

Jeremiah 11:17

I am the Lord All-Powerful. You people of Judah were like a tree that I had planted, but you have made me angry by offering sacrifices to Baal, just as the northern kingdom did. And now I'm going to pull you up by the roots. *

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem and Judah, you rebelled against your glorious Lord— your words and your actions, made you stumble and fall.

1 Kings 16:2

Nobody knew who you were until I, the Lord, chose you to be the leader of my people Israel. And now you're acting exactly like Jeroboam by causing the Israelites to sin. What you've done has made me so angry

Deuteronomy 32:21

You worshiped worthless idols, and made me jealous and angry! Now I will send a cruel and worthless nation to make you jealous and angry.

Deuteronomy 32:16

You made God jealous and angry by worshiping disgusting idols and foreign gods.

Deuteronomy 4:19

And when you see the sun or moon or stars, don't be tempted to bow down and worship them. The Lord put them there for all the other nations to worship.

Ezekiel 20:28

by offering sacrifices, incense, and wine to gods on every hill and under every large tree. I was very angry, because they did these things in the land I had given them!

Isaiah 65:11

What will I, the Lord, do if any of you reject me and my holy mountain? What will happen to you for offering food and wine to the gods you call “Good Luck” and “Fate”?

Isaiah 65:3

They keep making me angry by sneering at me, while offering sacrifices to idols in gardens and burning incense to them on bricks.

Isaiah 57:6

You have chosen to worship idols made of stone; you have given them offerings of wine and grain. Should I be pleased?

Psalm 16:4

but worshipers of other gods will have much sorrow. I refuse to offer sacrifices of blood to those gods or worship in their name.

Jeremiah 7:17

Do you see what the people of Judah are doing in their towns and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 17:2

One generation after another has set up pagan altars and worshiped the goddess Asherah everywhere in your country— on hills and mountains, and under large trees.

Lamentations 5:13

Young men are forced to do the work of slaves; boys must carry heavy loads of wood.

Ezekiel 8:17

God said, “Ezekiel, it's bad enough that the people of Judah are doing these disgusting things. But they have also spread violence and injustice everywhere in Israel and have made me very angry. They have disgraced and insulted me in the worst possible way.

Ezekiel 16:26

To make me angry, you even offered yourself to Egyptians, who were always ready to sleep with you.

Jeremiah 1:16

I will punish my people, because they are guilty of turning from me to worship idols.

Jeremiah 44:4

Time after time I sent my servants the prophets to tell the people of Judah how much I hated their disgusting sins. The prophets warned them to stop sinning,

Ezekiel 8:16

I was then led into the temple's inner courtyard, where I saw about 25 men standing near the entrance, between the porch and the altar. Their backs were to the Lord's temple, and they were bowing down to the rising sun.