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Jeremiah 7:18 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 7 · verse 18
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.Jeremiah 7:18 · King James Version
Jeremiah 7:18 in context
16Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.
17Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
18The 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.
19Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
20Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, mine anger and my fury shall be poured out upon this place, upon man, and upon beast, and upon the trees of the field, and upon the fruit of the ground; and it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- gatherlâqaṭproperly, to pick upH3950 →
- kindlebâʻarto kindleH1197 →
- womenʼishshâha womanH802 →
- kneadlûwshto kneadH3888 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-20