Deuteronomy 32:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Since they have incited me with a “no-god,” and provoked me with their empty idols, I will incite them with a “no-people”; with a foolish nation I will provoke them.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:22

Judah did evil in the Lord’s sight and they angered him even more than their ancestors had done.

1 Kings 14:9

You have done more evil than all who were before you: you have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke me; but me you have cast behind your back.

1 Kings 16:13

because of all the sins which Baasha and his son Elah committed and caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

1 Kings 16:26

In every way he imitated the sinful conduct of Jeroboam, son of Nebat, and the sin he had caused Israel to commit, thus provoking the Lord, the God of Israel, to anger by their idols.

2 Kings 17:11

They burned incense there, on all the high places, like the nations whom the Lord had sent into exile at their coming. They did evil things that provoked the Lord,

2 Kings 17:15

They rejected his statutes, the covenant he had made with their ancestors, and the warnings he had given them. They followed emptiness and became empty; they followed the surrounding nations whom the Lord had commanded them not to imitate.

2 Kings 21:6

He immolated his child by fire. He practiced soothsaying and divination, and reintroduced the consulting of ghosts and spirits. He did much evil in the Lord’s sight and provoked him to anger.

2 Kings 22:17

Because they have abandoned me and have burned incense to other gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands, my rage is ablaze against this place and it cannot be extinguished.

Psalm 31:6

Into your hands I commend my spirit; you will redeem me, Lord, God of truth.

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Isaiah 65:3

A people who provoke me continually to my face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks,

Jeremiah 10:8

One and all they are stupid and senseless, the instruction from nonentities—only wood!

Jeremiah 14:22

Among the idols of the nations are there any that give rain? Or can the mere heavens send showers? Is it not you, Lord, our God, to whom we look? You alone do all these things.

Jeremiah 18:15

Yet my people have forgotten me: they offer incense in vain. They stumble off their paths, the ways of old, Traveling on bypaths, not the beaten track.

Jeremiah 2:11

Does any other nation change its gods?— even though they are not gods at all! But my people have changed their glory for useless things.

Jeremiah 5:7

Why should I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, they swear by gods that are no gods. I fed them, but they commit adultery; to the prostitute’s house they throng.

Jeremiah 7:18

The children gather wood, their fathers light the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven, while libations are poured out to other gods—all to offend me!

Jeremiah 8:19

Listen! the cry of the daughter of my people, far and wide in the land! “Is the Lord no longer in Zion, is her King no longer in her midst?” Why do they provoke me with their idols, with their foreign nonentities?

Ezekiel 8:3

He stretched out the form of a hand and seized me by the hair of my head. The spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in divine vision to Jerusalem to the entrance of the inner gate facing north where the statue of jealousy that provokes jealousy stood.

Jonah 2:8

When I became faint, I remembered the Lord; My prayer came to you in your holy temple.

Acts 11:15

As I began to speak, the holy Spirit fell upon them as it had upon us at the beginning,

Acts 14:15

“Men, why are you doing this? We are of the same nature as you, human beings. We proclaim to you good news that you should turn from these idols to the living God, ‘who made heaven and earth and sea and all that is in them.’

Romans 10:19

But I ask, did not Israel understand? First Moses says: “I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a senseless nation I will make you angry.”

Romans 9:25

As indeed he says in Hosea: “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or are we provoking the Lord to jealous anger? Are we stronger than he? Seek the Good of Others.

Deuteronomy 32:16

With strange gods they incited him, with abominations provoked him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They sacrificed to demons, to “no-gods,” to gods they had never known, Newcomers from afar, before whom your ancestors had never trembled.

1 Samuel 12:21

Do not turn aside to gods who are nothing, who cannot act and deliver. They are nothing.