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Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: [do they] not [provoke] themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
Jeremiah 7:19 — KJV
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Jeremiah 7:19
King James Version (KJV)
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Commentary
Commentary on Jeremiah 7:19
Theological / DevotionalProvoke themselves. Although the words in italics were supplied in an attempt to complete the sense, they diminish the abrupt force of the Hebrew: “Do they provoke me? … Is it not themselves?” The consequences of the people’s own idolatry were to fall on their own heads (see Job 35:6, 8; Prov. 8:36).
Confusion. See ch. 3:25.
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