Isaiah 65:3

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

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.

Job 1:11

But now put forth your hand and touch all that he has, and surely he will curse you to your face.”

Job 2:5

But put forth your hand and touch his bone and his flesh. Then surely he will curse you to your face.”

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against God in the wilderness, grieved him in the wasteland.

Psalm 78:58

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

Isaiah 1:29

You shall be ashamed of the terebinths which you desired, and blush on account of the gardens which you chose.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Isaiah 66:17

Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who stands within, eating pig’s flesh, abominable things, and mice, shall all together come to an end, with their deeds and purposes—oracle of the Lord. God Gathers the Nations.

Isaiah 66:3

The one slaughtering an ox, striking a man, sacrificing a lamb, breaking a dog’s neck, Making an offering of pig’s blood, burning incense, honoring an idol— These have chosen their own ways, and taken pleasure in their own abominations.

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: Do you see what rebellious Israel has done? She has gone up every high mountain, and under every green tree she has played the prostitute.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them to the land I had sworn to give them, and they saw all its high hills and leafy trees, there they offered sacrifices, there they made offerings to provoke me, there they sent up sweet-smelling oblations, there they poured out their libations.

Leviticus 17:5

This is so that such sacrifices as they used to offer in the open field the Israelites shall henceforth bring to the Lord at the entrance of the tent of meeting, to the priest, and sacrifice them there as communion sacrifices to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:21

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.