King James Version
Jeremiah 7:19 in the King James Version says “Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?” — study this verse from Jeremiah chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?”
Jeremiah 7:19 · KJV
Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger. queen: or, frame, or, workmanship of heaven
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
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properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“Do they provoke me to anger”
H3707to trouble; by implication, to grieve, rage, be indignant
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“do they not provoke themselves to the confusion”
H1322shame (the feeling and the condition, as well as its cause); by implication (specifically) an idol
“of their own faces”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
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