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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 25:7 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jer 25:7 |
King James |
Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Though ye provoke Me to anger (Deu 32:21), yet it is not I, but yourselves, whom ye thereby hurt (Pro 8:36; Pro 20:2). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| That ye might provoke - Ye would not hearken; but chose to provoke me with anger. |
2 The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
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 which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.