Isaiah 65:3

Judgment And Salvation

² I held out my hands all day long to a disobedient people, who walk in a way that isn't good, following their own inclinations ³ a people who continually provoke me to my face; they keep sacrificing in gardens and waving their hands over stone altars; ⁴ who sit among graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pigs' meat, with the broth of detestable things in their pots;

All Day Long

Burn Incense

Burns Incense

Provoke Me

Isaiah 1:29

They'll be ashamed of the oak trees that you desired; and you'll blush because of the gardens that you have chosen.

Job 1:11

However, stretch out your hand and strike everything he owns, and he will curse you to your face."

Isaiah 66:17

"Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves, following the one at the center of those who eat the meat of pigs, disgusting things, and rats, are all alike," says the LORD.

Job 2:5

However, stretch out your hand and strike his bones and flesh, and he'll curse you to your face, won't he?"

Isaiah 3:8

"For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because what they say and do opposes the LORD; they keep defying him.

Exodus 20:24-25

You are to make an altar of earth for me, and you are to sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep, and your cattle. Everywhere I cause my name to be remembered, I'll come to you and bless you.

Exodus 30:1-10

"You are to make an altar for burning incense. You are to make it of acacia wood.

Leviticus 17:5

"This statute is required so that the Israelis may bring their sacrifices that they have been sacrificing to the LORD in the open field to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting, where they are to slaughter their peace offering to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:16-19

They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.

Deuteronomy 32:21

They provoked me to jealousy over non-gods, and to be angry over their vanity. Now I'll provoke them to jealousy over a non-people; and over a foolish nation I'll provoke them to anger.

2 Kings 17:14-17

But they would not listen. Instead, they were stubborn, just like their ancestors had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God.

2 Kings 22:17

because they have abandoned me, burned incense to other gods, and they have provoked me to anger with everything that they've done. Therefore my anger is kindled against this place and it won't be quenched!'"

Psalm 78:40

How they rebelled against him in the desert, grieving him in the wilderness!

Psalm 78:58

they angered him with their high places and with their carved images they made him jealous.

Jeremiah 3:6

In the time of King Josiah the LORD told me, "Have you seen what unfaithful Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she committed fornication there.

Jeremiah 32:30-35

Indeed, the Israelis and Judeans have been doing only evil in my presence since their youth. Indeed, the Israelis have done nothing but provoke me by what they have made with their hands," declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

"Do you see this, Son of Man?" he asked me. "Is it an insignificant thing for Judah's house to commit the detestable things that they're doing here? They've filled the land with violence and turned away from me, causing me to become angry again. Look how they're sniffing with their noses!

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land that I had promised to give them. But whenever they saw any high hill and or any leafy tree, they slaughtered their sacrifices there and presented their offerings that provoked my anger. There they presented their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offering.

Matthew 23:32-36

Then finish what your ancestors started!