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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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הֵ֚םhemtheyH1992 →
קִנְא֣וּנִיkin.'U.nithey have made jealous meH7065 →
בְלֹא־ve.lo'-by notH3808 →
אֵ֔ל'Ela godH410 →
כִּעֲס֖וּנִיki.'a.Su.nithey have provoked to anger meH3707 →
בְּהַבְלֵיהֶ֑םbe.hav.lei.Hemby vanities theirH1892 →
וַאֲנִי֙va.'a.Niand IH589 →
אַקְנִיאֵ֣ם'ak.ni.'EmI will make jealous themH7065 →
בְּלֹא־be.lo'-by notH3808 →
עָ֔ם'Ama peopleH5971 →
בְּג֥וֹיbe.Goyby a nationH1471 →
נָבָ֖לna.ValfoolishH5036 →
אַכְעִיסֵֽם׃'akh.'i.SemI will provoke to anger themH3707 →

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Romans 10:19I 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 9:25As 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 11:11–14I 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.1 Kings 16:26For 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 16:13This 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.Exodus 34:14For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.Psalms 78:58They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.Jonah 2:8Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.Psalms 31:6I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.Jeremiah 14:22Can 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.Hosea 1:10Yet 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 ‘sons of the living God.’Jeremiah 8:19Listen 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?”1 Samuel 12:21Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.1 Corinthians 10:22Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?Acts 11:15As I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, just as He had fallen upon us at the beginning.Jeremiah 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!1 Peter 2:9–10But 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.

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Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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