Jeremiah 32:31
Good News Translation
The people of this city have made me angry and furious from the day it was built. I have decided to destroy it

New Revised Standard Version
This city has aroused my anger and wrath, from the day it was built until this day, so that I will remove it from my sight

New American Bible
This city has so stirred my anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, that I must put it out of my sight,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken out of my sight.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken out of my sight.

this city.

Jeremiah 5:9-11 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation? . . .

Jeremiah 6:6,7 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her. . . .

Jeremiah 23:14,15 And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha. . . .

1 Kings 11:7,8 Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon. . . .

2 Kings 21:4-7,16 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name. . . .

2 Kings 22:16,17 Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring evils upon this place, and upon the inhabitants thereof, all the words of the law which the king of Juda hath read: . . .

2 Kings 23:15 Moreover, the altar also that was at Bethel, and the high place, which Jeroboam, the son of Nabat, who made Israel to sin, had made: both the altar, and the high place, he broke down and burnt, and reduced to powder, and burnt the grove.

Ezekiel 22:2-22 And thou son of man, dost thou not judge, dost thou not judge the city of blood? . . .

Matthew 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

Luke 13:33,34 Nevertheless, I must walk to-day and to-morrow and the day following, because it cannot be that a prophet perish, out of Jerusalem. . . .

a provocation of mine anger.

Jeremiah 27:10 For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your country, and cast you out, and to make you perish.

2 Kings 23:27 And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face, as I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there.

2 Kings 24:3,4 And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did; . . .

Lamentations 1:8 Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward.

Context
The LORD's Answer
30For 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. 31For this city hath been to me a provocation and indignation from the day that they built it, until this day, in which it shall be taken out of my sight.32Because of all the evil of the children of Israel, and of the children of Juda, which they have done, provoking me to wrath, they and their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets, the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:37
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a temple for Chamos, the idol of Moab, on the hill that is over against Jerusalem, and for Moloch, the idol of the children of Ammon.

1 Kings 11:8
And he did in this manner for all his wives that were strangers, who burnt incense, and offered sacrifice to their gods.

2 Kings 21:4
And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

2 Kings 21:16
Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

2 Kings 23:27
And the Lord said: I will remove Juda also from before my face, as I have removed Israel: and I will cast off this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the house, of which I said: My name shall be there.

2 Kings 24:3
And this came by the word of the Lord against Juda, to remove them from before him for all the sins of Manasses which he did;

2 Kings 24:4
And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.

Jeremiah 5:9
Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation?

Jeremiah 6:6
For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Hew down her trees, cast up a trench about Jerusalem: this is the city to be visited, all oppression is in the midst of her.

Jeremiah 6:7
As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.

Jeremiah 27:10
For they prophesy lies to you: to remove you far from your country, and cast you out, and to make you perish.

Daniel 9:16
O Lord, against all thy justice: let thy wrath and thy indignation be turned away, I beseech thee, from thy city, Jerusalem, and from thy holy mountain. For by reason of our sins, and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem, and thy people, are a reproach to all that are round about us.

Jeremiah 32:30
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