Jeremiah 7:19 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But are they really provoking me? ’ This is the Lord’s declaration. ‘Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace? ’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Am I the One Whom they provoke to anger? says the Lord. Is it not themselves [whom they provoke], to their own confusion and vexation and to their own shame? American Standard Version (1901) Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? Common English Bible But am I the one they are really offending? declares the LORD. Aren’t they in fact humiliating themselves? Catholic Public Domain Version But are they provoking me to anger, says the Lord? Are they not provoking themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?" Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? Is it not themselves, to the confusion of their countenance? |
Our guilt has been terrible from the days of our ancestors until the present. Because of our iniquities we have been handed over, along with our kings and priests, to the surrounding kings, and to the sword, captivity, plundering, and open shame, as it is today.
If you sin, how does it affect God? If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to him?
But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.’ For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Therefore the Lord God of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: ‘Ah, I will get even with my foes; I will take revenge against my enemies.
All of them are put to shame, even humiliated; the makers of idols go in humiliation together.
The mother of seven grew faint; she breathed her last breath. Her sun set while it was still day; she was ashamed and humiliated. The rest of them I will give over to the sword in the presence of their enemies.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.
Have you not brought this on yourself by abandoning the Lord your God while he was leading you along the way?
Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Recognise how evil and bitter it is for you to abandon the Lord your God and to have no fear of me. This is the declaration of the Lord God of Armies.
But the Lord is with me like a violent warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly shamed, an everlasting humiliation that will never be forgotten.
The wind will take charge of all your shepherds, and your lovers will go into captivity. Then you will be ashamed and humiliated because of all your evil.
‘ “But you have not obeyed me” #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #“with the result that you have angered me by the work of your hands and brought disaster on yourselves.”
Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the Lord our God, both we and our ancestors, from the time of our youth even to this day. We have not obeyed the Lord our God.’
because of the evil they committed to anger me, by going and burning incense to serve other gods that they, you, and your ancestors did not know.
Listen #– #the cry of my dear people from a faraway land, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion, her King not within her? ’ Why have they angered me with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?
For a sound of lamentation is heard from Zion: How devastated we are. We are greatly ashamed, for we have abandoned the land; our dwellings have been torn down.
You engaged in promiscuous acts with Egyptian men, your well-endowed neighbours, and increased your prostitution to anger me.
They provoked his jealousy with different gods; they enraged him with detestable practices.