King James Version
"Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?"
— Jeremiah 7:19, King James Version
“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 pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
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.
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.
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: