Jeremiah 7:18

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    The children{H1121} gather{H3950} wood,{H6086} and the fathers{H1} kindle{H1197} the fire,{H784} and the women{H802} knead{H3888} the dough,{H1217} to make{H6213} cakes{H3561} to the queen{H4446} of heaven,{H8064} and to pour out{H5258} drink-offerings{H5262} unto other{H312} gods,{H430} that they may provoke me to anger.{H3707}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    The children{H1121} gather{H3950}{(H8764)} wood{H6086}, and the fathers{H1} kindle{H1197}{(H8764)} the fire{H784}, and the women{H802} knead{H3888}{(H8802)} their dough{H1217}, to make{H6213}{(H8800)} cakes{H3561} to the queen{H4446} of heaven{H8064}, and to pour out{H5258}{(H8687)} drink offerings{H5262} unto other{H312} gods{H430}, that they may provoke me to anger{H3707}{(H8687)}.

  • 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 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
  • 1 Kgs 14:9 : 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:
  • Jer 44:17-19 : 17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings to her, without our husbands?
  • Jer 44:25 : 25 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hands, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her: you will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
  • Ezek 20:28 : 28 For when I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provoking of their offering: there also they made their sweet savor, and poured out there their drink offerings.
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
  • Deut 4:19 : 19 And lest you lift up your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has divided to all nations under the whole heaven.
  • Deut 32:16 : 16 They provoked him to jealousy with foreign gods, with abominations they provoked him to anger.
  • Deut 32:21 : 21 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their idols: and I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
  • Deut 32:37-38 : 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
  • 1 Kgs 16:2 : 2 Since I exalted you out of the dust and made you ruler over my people Israel, yet you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made my people Israel to sin, provoking me to anger with their sins;
  • Job 31:26-28 : 26 If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; 27 And my heart was secretly enticed, or my mouth has kissed my hand: 28 This also would be an iniquity to be judged, for I would have denied the God above.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take up their names on my lips.
  • Isa 3:8 : 8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of His glory.
  • Isa 57:6 : 6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot. To them you have poured a drink offering, you have offered a meat offering. Should I find comfort in these?
  • Isa 65:3 : 3 A people who provoke me to anger continually to my face, who sacrifice in gardens and burn incense on altars of brick;
  • Isa 65:11 : 11 But you are those who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who furnish drink offerings for Destiny.
  • 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 25:7 : 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.
  • Jer 32:29 : 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.

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