Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?”

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

But are they really provoking Me?” This is the Lord’s declaration. “Isn’t it they themselves being provoked to disgrace?”

International Standard Version

Are they provoking me?" asks the LORD. "Is it not themselves, and to their own shame?"

A Conservative Version

Do they provoke me to anger? says LORD, [and] not themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

American Standard Version

Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Amplified

Do they offend and provoke Me to anger?” says the Lord. “Is it not themselves [they offend], to their own shame?”

Bible in Basic English

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?

Darby Translation

Is it I whom they provoke to anger? saith Jehovah; is it not themselves, to the shame of their own face?

Julia Smith Translation

Are they irritating me? says Jehovah. Are they not themselves to the shame of their faces?

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

[Are] they provoking me to anger? " {declares} Yahweh, "[Is it] not themselves [they hurt], for the sake of the shame of their faces?"

Modern King James verseion

Do they vex Me? says Jehovah. Is it not themselves, to the shame of their own faces?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Howbeit, they hurt not me," sayeth the LORD, "but rather confound, and shame themselves."

NET Bible

But I am not really the one being troubled!" says the Lord. "Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!

New Heart English Bible

Do they provoke me to anger?" says the LORD. "Do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?"

The Emphasized Bible

Is it me, they are provoking? Enquireth Yahweh, - Is it not themselves, - unto the shame of their own faces?

Webster

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

World English Bible

Do they provoke me to anger? says Yahweh; [do they] not [provoke] themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Youngs Literal Translation

Me are they provoking to anger? an affirmation of Jehovah, Is it not themselves, For the shame of their own faces?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Do they provoke me to anger
כּעס 
Ka`ac 
Usage: 55

נאם 
N@'um 
Usage: 376

the Lord

Usage: 0

בּשׁת 
Bosheth 
Usage: 30

References

Context Readings

Do Not Pray For Judah

18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods in order to spite Me. 19 Do they spite Me?” declares the Lord. “Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?” 20 Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, My anger and My wrath will be poured out on this place, on man and on beast and on the trees of the field and on the fruit of the ground; and it will burn and not be quenched.”



Cross References

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than He, are we?

Deuteronomy 32:16

They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

Deuteronomy 32:21-22

They have made Me jealous with what is not God;
They have provoked Me to anger with their idols.
So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people;
I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation,

Ezra 9:7

Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and on account of our iniquities we, our kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity and to plunder and to open shame, as it is this day.

Job 35:6

“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are many, what do you do to Him?

Isaiah 1:20

“But if you refuse and rebel,
You will be devoured by the sword.”
Truly, the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 1:24

Therefore the Lord God of hosts,
The Mighty One of Israel, declares,
“Ah, I will be relieved of My adversaries
And avenge Myself on My foes.

Isaiah 45:16

They will be put to shame and even humiliated, all of them;
The manufacturers of idols will go away together in humiliation.

Jeremiah 2:17

“Have you not done this to yourself
By your forsaking the Lord your God
When He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you,
And your apostasies will reprove you;
Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter
For you to forsake the Lord your God,
And the dread of Me is not in you,” declares the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 9:19

“For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion,
How are we ruined!
We are put to great shame,
For we have left the land,
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

Jeremiah 20:11

But the Lord is with me like a dread champion;
Therefore my persecutors will stumble and not prevail.
They will be utterly ashamed, because they have failed,
With an everlasting disgrace that will not be forgotten.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose.

Daniel 9:7-8

Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.

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