Isaiah 65:3

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon bricks;

Cross References

2 Kings 22:17

Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the work of their hands, therefore my wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.

Job 1:11

But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse thee to thy face.”

Job 2:5

But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.”

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

Psalm 78:58

For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Isaiah 1:29

For you shall be ashamed of the oaks in which you delighted; and you shall blush for the gardens which you have chosen.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen; because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 66:17

“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, eating swine's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, says the Lord.

Isaiah 66:3

“He who slaughters an ox is like him who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like him who breaks a dog's neck; he who presents a cereal offering, like him who offers swine's blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like him who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;

Jeremiah 3:6

The Lord said to me in the days of King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the harlot?

Ezekiel 20:28

For when I had brought them into the land which I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their soothing odors, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

Leviticus 17:5

This is to the end that the people of Israel may bring their sacrifices which they slay in the open field, that they may bring them to the Lord, to the priest at the door of the tent of meeting, and slay them as sacrifices of peace offerings to the Lord;

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have stirred me to jealousy with what is no god; they have provoked me with their idols. So I will stir them to jealousy with those who are no people; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.