Jeremiah 7:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַאֹתִ֛י הֵ֥ם מַכְעִסִ֖ים נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הֲל֣וֹא אֹתָ֔ם לְמַ֖עַן בֹּ֥שֶׁת פְּנֵיהֶֽם׃ ס

Transliteration

?ha-ʾōtî hēm makʿîsîm nəʾum-YHWH ?hălôʾ ʾōtām for-bōšet pənêhem.

Grammar Details

*ha-ʾōtî*: interrogative particle + direct object marker with 1st person singular suffix - is it me?
*hēm*: 3rd person masculine plural pronoun - they
*makʿîsîm*: hiphil participle masculine plural - provoking to anger
*nəʾum-YHWH*: construct chain - declaration of YHWH
*hălôʾ*: interrogative particle + negative particle - is it not?
*ʾōtām*: direct object marker with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - them
*bōšet*: feminine singular noun - shame
*pənêhem*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their faces

Word Meanings

*makʿîsîm*: provoking to anger/vexing/irritating
*nəʾum-YHWH*: declaration of YHWH/utterance of the LORD
*bōšet*: shame/humiliation/disgrace

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Deut 32:16 : 16 They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]; With abominations provoked they him to anger.
Deut 32:21-22 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; They have provoked me to anger with their vanities: And I will move them to jealousy with those that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation. 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Ezra 9:7 : 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been exceedingly guilty unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Job 35:6 : 6 If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
Isa 1:20 : 20 but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
Isa 1:24 : 24 Therefore saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies;
Isa 45:16 : 16 They shall be put to shame, yea, confounded, all of them; they shall go into confusion together that are makers of idols.
Jer 2:17 : 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Jer 2:19 : 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Jer 9:19 : 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.
Jer 20:11 : 11 But Jehovah is with me as a mighty one [and] a terrible: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be utterly put to shame, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which shall never be forgotten.
Ezek 8:17-18 : 17 Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen [this], O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore will I also deal in wrath; mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
Dan 9:7-8 : 7 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. 8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.

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