Bible verse
But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
Jeremiah 7:19 · BSB
The verses around it, from Jeremiah 7.
15 And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.
16 As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.
17 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
19 But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?
20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
22 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
23 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
KJV
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
ASV
Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
ERV
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?
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