THEOSISJeremiah 25:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And you have not heard me, saith the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own hurt.
וְלֹֽא־שְׁמַעְתֶּ֥ם אֵלַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה לְמַ֧עַן הכעסוני הַכְעִיסֵ֛נִי בְּמַעֲשֵׂ֥ה יְדֵיכֶ֖ם לְרַ֥ע לָכֶֽם׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 32:21They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.
- Jer 32:30For the children of Israel, and the children of Juda, have continually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of Israel who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith the Lord.
- Jer 32:33And they have turned their backs to me, and not their faces: when I taught them early in the morning, and instructed them, and they would not hearken to receive instruction.
- Prov 8:36But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.
- Neh 9:26But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee: and they were guilty of great blasphemies.
- Jer 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.
- Jer 7:19Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? is it not themselves, to the confusion of their own countenance?