Quotes About Provocation

Then he set up an Asherah pole. Thus Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger than all the kings of Israel before him.

I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat and like that of Baasha son of Ahijah, because you have provoked My anger and caused Israel to sin.í

Ahaziah served and worshiped Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done.

They burned incense on all the high places like the nations that the LORD had driven out before them. They did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger.

because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger from the day their fathers came out of Egypt until this day.í”

Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger.

In every city of Judah he built high places to offer incense to other gods, and so he provoked the LORD, the God of his fathers.

Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.

Is there no end to your long-winded speeches? What provokes you to continue testifying?

Again and again they tested God and provoked the Holy One of Israel.

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.

The terror of a king is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him forfeits his own life.

Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.

to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,

But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

Listen to the cry of the daughter of my people from a land far away: “Is the LORD no longer in Zion? Is her King no longer there?” “Why have they provoked Me to anger with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?”

because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.

Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.

“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.

For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Just as I resolved to bring disaster upon you when your fathers provoked Me to anger, and I did not relent,” says the LORD of Hosts,

in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.