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?” "
— Jeremiah 7:19, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?”
“Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces? ”
“Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
“But I am not really the one being troubled!” says the LORD.“Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!”
“Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? is it not themselves, to the confusion of their own countenance?”
“Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?”
“Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?”
Therefore, you should not pray for this people, nor take up praise and supplication on their behalf. And you should not stand in opposition to me. For then I will not heed you.
Have you not seen what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
The sons gather the wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the wives spread the grease, so as to make cakes to the queen of heaven and to offer libations to strange gods, and so as to provoke me to anger.
But are they provoking me to anger, says the Lord? Are they not provoking themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?”
Therefore, thus says the Lord God: “Behold, my fury and my indignation is kindled against this place, over men and over beasts, and over the trees of the countryside and over the fruits of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.”
Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your holocausts to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.
For concerning the matter of holocausts and sacrifices, I did not speak with your fathers, and I did not instruct them, in the day when I led them away from the land of Egypt.