Jeremiah 44:3

New American Bible - revised edition

because of the evil they did to provoke me, going after other gods, offering incense and serving other gods they did not know, neither they, nor you, nor your ancestors.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:26

So the anger of the Lord flared up against this land and brought on it every curse written in this book.

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.

Deuteronomy 13:6

But that prophet or that dreamer shall be put to death, because, in order to lead you astray from the way which the Lord, your God, has commanded you to take, the prophet or dreamer has spoken apostasy against the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst.

Daniel 9:5

We have sinned, been wicked and done evil; we have rebelled and turned from your commandments and your laws.

Jeremiah 44:8

Why do you provoke me with the works of your hands, offering sacrifice to other gods here in the land of Egypt where you have come to live? Will you cut yourselves off and become a curse, a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Nehemiah 9:33

In all that has come upon us you have been just, for you kept faith while we have done evil.

Ezekiel 9:9

He answered me: The guilt of the house of Israel and the house of Judah is too great to measure; the land is filled with bloodshed, the city with lawlessness. They think that the Lord has abandoned the land, that he does not see them.

Lamentations 4:13

Except for the sins of her prophets and the crimes of her priests, Who poured out in her midst the blood of the just.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously, therefore she has become a mockery; Those who honored her now demean her, for they saw her nakedness; She herself groans out loud, and turns away.

Jeremiah 22:9

And they will be told: “Because they have deserted their covenant with the Lord, their God, by worshiping and serving other gods.”

Jeremiah 11:17

The Lord of hosts who planted you has decreed disaster for you because of the evil done by the house of Israel and by the house of Judah, who provoked me by sacrificing to Baal. The Plot Against Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 7:19

Are they really offending me—oracle of the Lord—or rather themselves, to their own disgrace?

Jeremiah 5:29

Shall I not punish these things?—oracle of the Lord; on a nation such as this shall I not take vengeance?

Jeremiah 5:19

And when they ask, “Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?” say to them, “As you have abandoned me to serve foreign gods in your own land, so shall you serve foreigners in a land not your own.”

Hebrews 3:16

Who were those who rebelled when they heard? Was it not all those who came out of Egypt under Moses?

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.

Jeremiah 32:30

From their youth the Israelites and the Judahites have been doing only what is evil in my eyes; the Israelites have been provoking me with the works of their hands—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:23

Because you offered sacrifice and sinned against the Lord, not listening to the voice of the Lord, not following his law, his statutes, and his decrees, therefore this evil has overtaken you, as it is today.

Deuteronomy 29:25

and they went and served other gods and bowed down to them, gods whom they did not know and whom he had not apportioned to them.

Jeremiah 16:10

When you proclaim all these words to this people and they ask you: “Why has the Lord pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our crime? What sin have we committed against the Lord, our God?”—

Jeremiah 29:19

because they did not listen to my words—oracle of the Lord—even though I kept sending them my servants the prophets, but they would not listen to them—oracle of the Lord.