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Jeremiah 25:7

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25:7So, now the Lord says,15 ‘You have not listened to me. But16 you have made me angry by the things that you have done.17 Thus you have brought harm on yourselves.’

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  1. 15 Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”
  2. 16 This is a rather clear case where the Hebrew particle לְמַעַן (léma’an) introduces a consequence and not a purpose, contrary to the dictum of 775 מַעַן note 1. They have not listened to him in order to make him angry but with the result that they have made him angry by going their own way. Jeremiah appears to use this particle for result rather than purpose on several other occasions (see, e.g., 7:18, 19; 27:10, 15; 32:29).
  3. 17 Heb “make me angry with the work of your hands.” The term “work of your own hands” is often interpreted as a reference to idolatry as is clearly the case in Isa 2:8; 37:19. However, the parallelism in 25:14 and the context in 32:30 show that it is more general and refers to what they have done. That is likely the meaning here as well.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Yet you have not listened to me, declares the Lord, that you might provoke me to anger with the work of your hands to your own harm.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“But you did not listen to me,” declares the Lord, “and you have aroused my anger with what your hands have made, and you have brought harm to yourselves.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“ ‘But you have not obeyed me’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘with the result that you have angered me by the work of your hands and brought disaster on yourselves.’

NLTNew Living Translation

“But you would not listen to me,” says the Lord. “You made me furious by worshiping idols you made with your own hands, bringing on yourselves all the disasters you now suffer.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

‘Yet you have not listened to me,’ declares Yahweh, ‘so that you have provoked me to anger with the work of your hands for your own harm.’

KJV 1900King James Version

Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.