Deuteronomy 32:21 “They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enr…”

Deuteronomy 32:21

They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

American Standard Version

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 that are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Geneva Bible 1599

They haue moued me to ielousie with that which is not God: they haue prouoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will moue them to ielousie with those which are no people: I wil prouoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Darby Translation

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is no God; They have exasperated me with their vanities; And I will move them to jealousy with that which is not a people; With a foolish nation will I provoke them to anger.

Young's Literal Translation

They have made Me zealous by 'no-god,' They made Me angry by their vanities; And I make them zealous by 'no-people,' By a foolish nation I make them angry.

Bible in Basic English

They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,

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Cross references

“moved me”

Psalm 78:58 Deuteronomy 32:16

Psalm 78:58 · BSB

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

Deuteronomy 32:16 · BSB

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

“with their vanities”

1 Kings 16:26 1 Kings 16:13 Psalm 31:6 Jonah 2:8 Jeremiah 14:22 1 Samuel 12:21

1 Kings 16:26 · BSB

For he walked in all the ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins, which he caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.

1 Kings 16:13 · BSB

This happened because of all the sins Baasha and his son Elah had committed and had caused Israel to commit, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their worthless idols.

Psalm 31:6 · BSB

I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.

Jonah 2:8 · BSB

Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

Jeremiah 14:22 · BSB

Can the worthless idols of the nations bring rain? Do the skies alone send showers? Is this not by You, O LORD our God? So we put our hope in You, for You have done all these things.

1 Samuel 12:21 · BSB

Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

“I will”

Romans 10:19 Romans 9:25 Romans 11:11–14 Hosea 1:10 1 Peter 2:9 1 Peter 2:10

Romans 10:19 · BSB

I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”

Romans 9:25 · BSB

As He says in Hosea: “I will call them ‘My People’ who are not My people, and I will call her ‘My Beloved’ who is not My beloved,”

Romans 11:11–14 · BSB

I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.

Hosea 1:10 · BSB

Yet the number of the Israelites will be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted. And it will happen that in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not My people,’ they will be called ‘s…

1 Peter 2:9 · BSB

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.

1 Peter 2:10 · BSB

Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Also

1 Corinthians 10:22

1 Corinthians 10:22 · BSB

Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation— children of unfaithfulness.

22For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.

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