Jeremiah 44:3

New Living Translation

They provoked my anger with all their wickedness. They burned incense and worshiped other gods—gods that neither they nor you nor any of your ancestors had ever even known.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:33

Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem will stumble, and Judah will fall, because they speak out against the Lord and refuse to obey him. They provoke him to his face.

Jeremiah 11:17

“I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, who planted this olive tree, have ordered it destroyed. For the people of Israel and Judah have done evil, arousing my anger by burning incense to Baal.”

Jeremiah 16:10

“When you tell the people all these things, they will ask, ‘Why has the Lord decreed such terrible things against us? What have we done to deserve such treatment? What is our sin against the Lord our God?’

Jeremiah 22:9

And the answer will be, ‘Because they violated their covenant with the Lord their God by worshiping other gods.’”

Jeremiah 29:19

For they refuse to listen to me, though I have spoken to them repeatedly through the prophets I sent. And you who are in exile have not listened either,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 32:30

Israel and Judah have done nothing but wrong since their earliest days. They have infuriated me with all their evil deeds,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 44:23

All these terrible things happened to you because you have burned incense to idols and sinned against the Lord. You have refused to obey him and have not followed his instructions, his decrees, and his laws.”

Jeremiah 44:8

Why provoke my anger by burning incense to the idols you have made here in Egypt? You will only destroy yourselves and make yourselves an object of cursing and mockery for all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 5:19

“And when your people ask, ‘Why did the Lord our God do all this to us?’ you must reply, ‘You rejected him and gave yourselves to foreign gods in your own land. Now you will serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’

Jeremiah 5:29

Should I not punish them for this?” says the Lord. “Should I not avenge myself against such a nation?

Jeremiah 7:19

Am I the one they are hurting?” asks the Lord. “Most of all, they hurt themselves, to their own shame.”

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned greatly, so she has been tossed away like a filthy rag. All who once honored her now despise her, for they have seen her stripped naked and humiliated. All she can do is groan and hide her face.

Lamentations 4:13

Yet it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the sins of her priests, who defiled the city by shedding innocent blood.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, “The sins of the people of Israel and Judah are very, very great. The entire land is full of murder; the city is filled with injustice. They are saying, ‘The Lord doesn’t see it! The Lord has abandoned the land!’

Daniel 9:5

But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.

Deuteronomy 13:6

“Suppose someone secretly entices you—even your brother, your son or daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend—and says, ‘Let us go worship other gods’—gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known.

Deuteronomy 29:25

“And the answer will be, ‘This happened because the people of the land abandoned the covenant that the Lord, the God of their ancestors, made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 29:26

Instead, they turned away to serve and worship gods they had not known before, gods that were not from the Lord.

Deuteronomy 32:17

They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God, to gods they had not known before, to new gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared.

Hebrews 3:16

And who was it who rebelled against God, even though they heard his voice? Wasn’t it the people Moses led out of Egypt?