Jeremiah 44:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they did not know, neither you nor your fathers.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    This 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.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, and to serve other gods, whom they knew not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    because{H6440} of their wickedness{H7451} which they have committed{H6213} to provoke me to anger,{H3707} in that they went{H3212} to burn incense,{H6999} [and] to serve{H5647} other{H312} gods,{H430} that they knew{H3045} not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.{H1}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Because{H6440} of their wickedness{H7451} which they have committed{H6213}{(H8804)} to provoke me to anger{H3707}{(H8687)}, in that they went{H3212}{(H8800)} to burn incense{H6999}{(H8763)}, and to serve{H5647}{(H8800)} other{H312} gods{H430}, whom they knew{H3045}{(H8804)} not, neither they, ye, nor your fathers{H1}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    & yt because of the greate blasphemies, which they committed, to prouoke me vnto anger: In that they wente backe to do sacrifice ad worshipe vnto straunge goddes: whom nether they, ner ye, ner yor fathers haue knowne.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Because of their wickednes which they haue comitted, to prouoke me to anger in that they went to burne incense, & to serue other gods, who they knew not, neither they nor you nor your fathers.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And that because of the great blasphemies, which they commited to prouoke me vnto anger, in that they went backe to do sacrifice and worship vnto straunge gods, whom neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers haue knowen.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [neither] they, ye, nor your fathers.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    because of their wickedness that they have done, by provoking Me to anger, by going to make perfume, by serving other gods, that they knew not, they, ye, and your fathers.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, `and' to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, that they knew not, neither they, nor ye, nor your fathers.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Because of the evil which they have done, moving me to wrath by burning perfumes in worship to other gods, who were not their gods or yours or the gods of their fathers.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods, that they didn't know, neither they, nor you, nor your fathers.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    This happened because of the wickedness the people living there did. They made me angry by worshiping and offering sacrifice to other gods whom neither they nor you nor your ancestors previously knew.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 13:6 : 6 If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
  • Deut 29:26 : 26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:
  • Deut 32:17 : 17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
  • Jer 44:8 : 8 In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to dwell, that you might cut yourselves off, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
  • Ezek 8:17-18 : 17 Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it a trivial 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 returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose. 18 Therefore I will also deal in fury: my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, yet I will not hear them.
  • Neh 9:33 : 33 However, You are just in all that has come upon us; for You have done right, but we have acted wickedly.
  • Jer 2:17-19 : 17 Have you not brought this upon yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you in the way? 18 And now what do you have to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what do you have to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river? 19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
  • Dan 9:5 : 5 We have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments:
  • Zech 7:12-13 : 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts. 13 Therefore it has come to pass, that just as He called and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear, says the LORD of hosts:
  • Jer 4:17-18 : 17 As keepers of a field, they are against her all around; because she has been rebellious against me, says the LORD. 18 Your way and your deeds have procured these things for you; this is your wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reaches to your heart.
  • Jer 5:19 : 19 And it shall come to pass, when you shall say, Why does the LORD our God do all these things to us? then you shall answer them, Just as you have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.
  • Jer 5:29 : 29 Shall I not visit for these things? says the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
  • Jer 7:19 : 19 Do they provoke me to anger? says the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
  • Jer 9:12-14 : 12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD has spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perishes and is burned up like a wilderness, that no one passes through? 13 And the LORD says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, nor walked in it; 14 But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
  • Jer 11:17 : 17 For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.
  • Jer 16:11-12 : 11 Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law. 12 And you have done worse than your fathers, for behold, each one walks after the imagination of his evil heart, so that you do not listen to me.
  • Jer 19:3-4 : 3 And say, Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring disaster upon this place, which whoever hears of it, his ears shall tingle. 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
  • Jer 22:9 : 9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD has forsaken the earth, and the LORD does not see.
  • Ezek 22:25-31 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in its midst, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in its midst. 26 Her priests have violated My law, and have profaned My holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and unholy, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in its midst are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. 28 And her prophets have daubed them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies to them, saying, Thus says the Lord GOD, when the LORD has not spoken. 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out My indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, says the Lord GOD.
  • Lam 1:8 : 8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,
  • Ezra 9:6-9 : 6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to You, my God, for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass has grown up to the heavens. 7 Since the days of our fathers we have been in a great trespass to this day; and because of our iniquities, we, our kings, and our priests, have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. 8 And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a little reviving in our bondage. 9 For we were bondservants, yet our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but has extended mercy to us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, to repair its desolations, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem. 10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken Your commandments, 11 Which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, The land unto which you go to possess it is an unclean land with the filthiness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2 Kgs 22:17
    83%

    17 Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

  • Jer 44:4-6
    3 verses
    83%

    4 However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate.

    5 But they did not listen, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

    6 Therefore my fury and my anger was poured forth, and kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

  • 2 Chr 34:25
    83%

    25 Because they have forsaken me and have burned incense to other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my wrath shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

  • Jer 44:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

    8 In that you provoke me to wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to dwell, that you might cut yourselves off, and that you might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

    9 Have you forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    10 They are not humbled even to this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

  • 2 Kgs 17:11-12
    2 verses
    80%

    11 There they burned incense on all the high places, as the nations had done whom the LORD carried away before them; and they did wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger.

    12 For they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • Jer 44:21-23
    3 verses
    80%

    21 The incense that you burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and did it not come into his mind?

    22 So that the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings, and because of the abominations which you have committed; therefore your land is a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

    23 Because you have burned incense, and because you have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil has happened to you, as at this day.

  • Deut 29:26
    79%

    26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

  • Jer 32:32
    79%

    32 Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  • Jer 1:16
    79%

    16 And I will utter My judgments against them concerning all their wickedness, who have forsaken Me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.

  • 2 Chr 28:25
    78%

    25 And in every city of Judah, he made high places to burn incense to other gods, and provoked to anger the LORD God of his fathers.

  • Jer 19:4
    77%

    4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    77%

    22 And they will answer, Because they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this calamity upon them.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
    77%

    18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols; and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.

  • Jer 16:11
    76%

    11 Then you shall say to them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, says the LORD, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.

  • Judg 2:12
    76%

    12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

  • 1 Kgs 9:9
    76%

    9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God, who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken hold of other gods, and have worshiped them, and served them: therefore, the LORD has brought upon them all this evil.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    76%

    17 They caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger.

  • Jer 25:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6 And do not go after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and do not provoke me to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no harm.'

    7 Yet you have not listened to Me, says the LORD; that you might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own harm.

  • 2 Kgs 21:15
    75%

    15 Because they have done what is evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.

  • Jer 11:10
    75%

    10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • Jer 11:17
    75%

    17 For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

  • 2 Chr 29:6-7
    2 verses
    75%

    6 For our fathers have trespassed, and done evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken Him, and turned away from the dwelling place of the LORD, and turned their backs.

    7 They have also shut up the doors of the porch, put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel.

  • Ezek 20:24
    75%

    24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.

  • Jer 7:18-19
    2 verses
    75%

    18 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.

    19 Do they provoke me to anger? says the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?

  • Jer 32:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    29 And the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set fire to this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

    30 For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, says the LORD.

  • Isa 65:3
    74%

    3 A people who provoke me to anger continually to my face, who sacrifice in gardens and burn incense on altars of brick;

  • Jer 22:9
    74%

    9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshiped other gods, and served them.

  • Jer 2:5
    74%

    5 Thus says the LORD, What wrong have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have followed idols, and have become idolaters?

  • Zech 1:2
    74%

    2 The LORD has been very displeased with your fathers.

  • Ezek 44:12
    74%

    12 Because they ministered to them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore I have lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.

  • Isa 65:7
    74%

    7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says the LORD, who have burned incense on the mountains and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore I will measure their former work into their lap.

  • Deut 32:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.

    17 They sacrificed to demons, not to God; to gods whom they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.

  • 1 Kgs 14:9
    74%

    9 But have done evil above all that were before you: for you have gone and made for yourself other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

  • Neh 9:35
    73%

    35 For they have not served You in their kingdom, or in the vast and fertile land that You gave them, nor did they turn from their wicked works.

  • Ezek 23:37
    73%

    37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bore to me, to pass through the fire, to devour them.

  • Judg 2:20
    73%

    20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because this people have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

  • Jer 32:34
    73%

    34 But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.

  • Ezek 23:39
    73%

    39 For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.