Jeremiah 7:18

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven. They pour out drink offerings to other gods, provoking me to anger.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    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 to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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 pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The children gather stickes, the fathers kyndle the fyre, the mothers kneade the dowe, to bake cakes for the quene of heauen. They poure out drinkoffringes vnto strauge goddes, to prouoke me vnto wrath:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The children gather wood, & the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knede the dough to make cakes to the Queene of heauen and to powre out drinke offrings vnto other gods, that they may prouoke me vnto anger.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    The chyldren gather stickes, the fathers kindle the fire, the wome kneade the dough to bake cakes for the queene of heauen: they powre out drinke offeringes vnto straunge gods, to prouoke me vnto wrath.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Children are gathering firewood, fathers are building fires with it, and women are mixing dough to bake cakes to offer to the goddess they call the Queen of Heaven. They are also pouring out drink offerings to other gods. They seem to do all this just to trouble me.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 19:13 : 13 The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on their roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:9 : 9 You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have gone and made other gods and cast images to provoke Me to anger, and you have turned your back on Me.
  • Jer 44:17-19 : 17 Instead, we will do everything we promised: we will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. At that time, we had plenty of food, prospered, and experienced no disaster. 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by sword and famine. 19 And when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured drink offerings to her, did we do it without our husbands’ approval? Were they not with us when we made cakes shaped like her and poured drink offerings to her?
  • Jer 44:25 : 25 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have declared with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, ‘We will certainly keep the vows we made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead then, fulfill your vows and keep your promises.
  • Ezek 20:28 : 28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there.
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He is?
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And be careful not to lift your eyes toward the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars—all the host of heaven—and be led astray to bow down to them and worship them, things the LORD your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
  • Deut 32:16 : 16 They made Him jealous with strange gods and provoked Him to anger with detestable practices.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They made Me jealous with something that is not God; they provoked Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a nation; I will provoke them with a foolish nation.
  • Deut 32:37-38 : 37 And He will say: 'Where are their gods? The rock they sought refuge in? 38 The ones who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be your shelter!
  • 1 Kgs 16:2 : 2 Because I raised you up from the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, but you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and led My people Israel into sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,
  • Job 31:26-28 : 26 if I have looked at the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor, 27 and my heart was secretly enticed, and my hand offered them a kiss in worship, 28 then this too would be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied God above.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 The sorrows of those who run after another god will multiply; I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood or take their names upon my lips.
  • Isa 3:8 : 8 For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and actions are against the LORD, challenging His glorious presence.
  • Isa 57:6 : 6 Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, indeed, are your lot. To them you have poured out drink offerings and presented grain offerings. Should I relent concerning these things?
  • Isa 65:3 : 3 These people continually provoke me to my face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks.
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 But as for you who abandon the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of wine for Destiny,
  • Jer 11:17 : 17 The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has pronounced disaster against you because of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have done to provoke me by burning incense to Baal.
  • Jer 25:7 : 7 But you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, and you have provoked me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own harm.
  • Jer 32:29 : 29 The Chaldeans who are fighting against the city will enter it, set it on fire, and burn it along with the houses where incense was offered to Baal on their rooftops and drink offerings were poured out to other gods, provoking Me to anger.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 7:17
    82%

    17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Jer 7:19
    82%

    19Is it me they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves, to their own shame?

  • Jer 44:17-20
    4 verses
    80%

    17Instead, we will do everything we promised: we will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, just as we, our ancestors, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. At that time, we had plenty of food, prospered, and experienced no disaster.

    18But since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by sword and famine.

    19And when we burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured drink offerings to her, did we do it without our husbands’ approval? Were they not with us when we made cakes shaped like her and poured drink offerings to her?

    20Then Jeremiah said to all the people, both the men and the women, who had given him this answer:

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    78%

    17They sacrificed their sons and daughters in the fire, practiced divination and sorcery, and sold themselves to do what was evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

  • Jer 44:25
    77%

    25This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: You and your wives have declared with your mouths and fulfilled with your hands, saying, ‘We will certainly keep the vows we made to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.’ Go ahead then, fulfill your vows and keep your promises.

  • 2 Kgs 22:17
    76%

    17‘Because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods, provoking Me to anger with all the works of their hands. Therefore, My wrath is kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.’

  • 2 Kgs 17:11
    75%

    11There, on all the high places, they burned incense as the nations whom the Lord had driven out before them had done. They did wicked things that provoked the Lord to anger.

  • 2 Chr 34:25
    75%

    25Because they have abandoned Me and burned incense to other gods, provoking Me to anger with all the works of their hands, My wrath will be poured out on this place, and it will not be quenched.'

  • Jer 44:3
    75%

    3This happened because of their wickedness in provoking me to anger by burning incense and worshiping other gods—gods they, you, and your ancestors did not know.

  • Jer 1:16
    74%

    16I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their evil in forsaking Me, burning incense to other gods, and worshiping the works of their own hands.

  • Ezek 23:37
    74%

    37For they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, passing them through the fire as food for their idols.

  • Jer 44:8
    74%

    8You provoke me to anger with the works of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have come to live, so as to destroy yourselves and make yourselves a curse and a disgrace among all the nations of the earth.

  • Ezek 16:20-21
    2 verses
    73%

    20You even took the sons and daughters you bore to me and sacrificed them to the idols as food. Was your prostitution not enough?

    21You slaughtered my children and offered them up by making them pass through fire to these idols.

  • Jer 32:29
    73%

    29The Chaldeans who are fighting against the city will enter it, set it on fire, and burn it along with the houses where incense was offered to Baal on their rooftops and drink offerings were poured out to other gods, provoking Me to anger.

  • Ezek 20:26
    72%

    26I defiled them through their own gifts, by making them cause all their firstborn to pass through the fire, in order to devastate them and make them know that I am the LORD.

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    72%

    35They built high places for Baal in the Valley of Hinnom’s Son to sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech, something I never commanded nor even considered in My heart. They committed this detestable act to make Judah sin.

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    72%

    5You burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree; you slaughter children in the valleys, under crags of the cliffs.

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    72%

    30The men from Babylon made Sukkoth Benoth, the men from Cuthah made Nergal, and the men from Hamath made Ashima.

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  • Jer 19:13
    72%

    13The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will become defiled like this place, Topheth—all the houses where they burned incense on their roofs to all the starry hosts and poured out drink offerings to other gods.

  • Jer 7:30-31
    2 verses
    72%

    30For the people of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my name to defile it.

    31They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I did not command, nor did it enter my mind.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    72%

    25In every city of Judah, he built high places to burn incense to other gods, provoking the LORD, the God of his ancestors, to anger.

  • Hos 4:13
    72%

    13They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, where the shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.

  • Jer 5:7
    71%

    7How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by false gods. I satisfied them, but they committed adultery and gathered at the houses of prostitutes.

  • Ezek 20:28
    71%

    28When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there, provoked me with their offerings, placed their pleasing aromas, and poured out their drink offerings there.

  • Ezek 23:39
    71%

    39When they slaughtered their children as sacrifices to their idols, they came to my sanctuary on the same day to desecrate it. See, this is what they have done in my house.

  • Lam 4:10
    71%

    10The compassionate women have boiled their own children; they became their food during the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Isa 65:3
    71%

    3These people continually provoke me to my face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks.

  • Deut 12:31
    71%

    31You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because they practice for their gods every abomination that the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

  • Lev 26:26
    71%

    26When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied.

  • Jer 19:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4For they have abandoned Me and made this place foreign. They have burned incense here to other gods—gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

    5They have built high places to Baal to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or speak of, nor did it ever enter My mind.

  • Jer 17:27
    71%

    27But if you do not obey Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any loads as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath, then I will kindle a fire in its gates, and it will consume the fortresses of Jerusalem and will not be extinguished.

  • Jer 25:7
    70%

    7But you have not listened to me, declares the LORD, and you have provoked me to anger with the works of your hands, to your own harm.

  • Jer 44:6
    70%

    6So my fury and my anger poured out and burned in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, making them a desolate ruin, as they are today.

  • Jer 11:13
    70%

    13For your gods, Judah, are as numerous as your cities; and the altars you have set up to the shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal, are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.

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    70%

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    70%

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    70%

    4because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the LORD's anger will burn against you, and He will quickly destroy you.

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    70%

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    70%

    3He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, following the detestable practices of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.

  • Mal 1:7
    70%

    7By presenting defiled food on my altar. But you ask, 'How have we defiled you?' By saying, 'The LORD's table is contemptible.'

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    70%

    7All of them are hot like an oven; they devour their rulers. All their kings fall, and none call on me.

  • 2 Chr 33:6
    70%

    6He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination, sought omens, practiced witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger.

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    70%

    12They abandoned the LORD, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger.