Jeremiah 25:7
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.
Jeremiah 25:7 in other translations
| BSB | ‘But to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.’ |
|---|---|
| WEB | “Yet you have not listened to me,” says the LORD, “that you may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt.” |
| ASV | Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye may provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own hurt. |
| YLT | And ye have not hearkened unto Me--an affirmation of Jehovah--so as to provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands for evil to you. |
| DARBY | But ye have not hearkened unto me, saith Jehovah; that ye might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands, to your own hurt. |
| BBE | But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves. |
| Webster | Yet ye have not hearkened to me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt. |
What does Jeremiah 25:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 25:1-7
The Jews rebuked for not obeying calls to repentance. (Jr 25:1-7) Their captivity during seventy years is expressly foretold. (Jr 25:8-14) Desolations upon the nations shown by the emblem of a cup of wrath. (Jr 25:15-29) The judgments again declared. (Jr 25:30-38) Verses 1-7 The call to turn from evil ways to the worship and service of God, and for sinners to trust in Christ, and partake of his salvation, concerns…
Jeremiah 25:7 in the original Hebrew
Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.
Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).
Cross references for Jeremiah 25:7
- 2 Kings 21:15
Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.
- Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
- Deuteronomy 32:21
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.
- 2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
- Jeremiah 7:18-19
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. Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
- Jeremiah 32:30-33
For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the Lord. For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face, Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
- Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Jeremiah 25:6
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
- Jeremiah 25:7
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.
- Jeremiah 25:8
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,
Jeremiah 25:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Empero no me habéis oído, dice Jehová, para provocarme á ira con la obra de vuestras manos para mal vuestro. |
|---|---|
| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mais vous ne m’avez pas écouté, dit l’ Éternel, pour me provoquer par l’œuvre de vos mains, pour votre propre malheur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Aber ihr habt nicht auf mich gehört, spricht Jehova, um mich durch das Werk eurer Hände zu reizen, euch zum Unglück. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et non audistis me, dicit Dominus, ut me ad iracundiam provocaretis in operibus manuum vestrarum, in malum vestrum. |