Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
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Gill's Exposition
Do they provoke me to anger? saith the Lord,.... No: he cannot be provoked to anger as men are; anger does not fall upon him as it does on men; there is no such affection in God as there is in men;…
Barnes' Notes
Do they not provoke ... - literally, Is it not themselves (“that they provoke”) to the shame of their faces?
God had shown them, in the foregoing verses, that the temple and the service of it, of which they boasted and in which they trusted, should not avail to prevent the judgment threatened. But there was…
See introd. note on the section and cp. Jer 15:1. It is hardly probable that this formed part of Jeremiah's address, seeing that it gives us in fact Jehovah's words to His prophet abruptly inserted,…
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