Jeremiah 25:7
Good News Translation
But the LORD himself says that you refused to listen to him. Instead, you made him angry with your idols and have brought his punishment on yourselves.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet you did not listen to me, says the LORD, and so you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

Contemporary English Version
But you refused to listen to my prophets. So I, the LORD, say that you have made me angry by worshiping idols, and you are the ones who were hurt by what you did.

New American Bible
But you would not listen to me—oracle of the LORD—and so you provoked me with the works of your hands to your own harm.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

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Jeremiah 7:18,19 The 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. . . .

Jeremiah 32:30-33 For 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. . . .

Deuteronomy 32:21 They 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.

2 Kings 17:17 And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.

2 Kings 21:15 Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.

Nehemiah 9:26 But 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.

Proverbs 8:36 Wisdom hath built herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars.

Context
The Seventy-Year Captivity
6And go not after strange gods to serve them, and adore them: nor provoke me to wrath by the works of your hands, and I will not afflict you. 7And 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.8Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard my words:…
Cross References
2 Kings 17:17
And consecrated their sons, and their daughters, through fire: and they gave themselves to divinations, and soothsayings: and they delivered themselves up to do evil before the Lord, to provoke him.

2 Kings 21:15
Because they have done evil before me, and have continued to provoke me, from the day that their fathers came out of Egypt, even unto this day.

Jeremiah 7:19
Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? is it not themselves, to the confusion of their own countenance?

Jeremiah 25:8
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard my words:

Jeremiah 32:30
For 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.

Jeremiah 44:8
In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, by sacrificing to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which you are come to dwell there: and that you should perish, and be a curse, and a reproach to all the nations of the earth?

Jeremiah 25:6
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