Jeremías 44:3

3 Ellos provocaron mi enojo con toda su perversidad. Quemaban incienso y rendían culto a otros dioses, dioses que ni ellos ni ustedes ni ninguno de sus antepasados conocieron.

Jeremías 44:3 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 44:3

Because of their wickedness which they have committed to
provoke me to anger
The cause of this desolation was the wickedness they were guilty of; whereby they provoked the anger of God to bring this destruction on them. Sin is always provoking unto God; and though it may not be done on purpose to provoke him, which it sometimes seems to be; yet it eventually does, and is always the cause of punishment: God never punishes man without a cause, or for anything but sin: in that they went to burn incense, [and] to serve other gods:
the particular wickedness they were guilty of, and which was the cause of their ruin, was burning incense to idols, and worshipping them, than which nothing is more provoking to God: and it was an aggravation of their sin, that they were gods whom they knew not, [neither] they, you, nor your fathers;
what they were; from whence they were; their original, and perhaps not their names; however, did not know that they were gods; nor could they prove them to be such; nay, might know that they were not: and now, since this was the sin which brought on the destruction they were eyewitnesses of, it should have been a caution to them that they went not into the same idolatrous practices, which yet they did not avoid; taking no warning from such awful instances of the divine displeasure.

Jeremías 44:3 In-Context

1 Castigo por idolatría
Este es el mensaje que recibió Jeremías con relación a los judíos que vivían en el norte de Egipto, en las ciudades de Migdol, Tafnes y Menfis
y también en el sur de Egipto.

2 «Esto dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales, Dios de Israel: ustedes vieron las calamidades que traje sobre Jerusalén y sobre todas las ciudades de Judá. Ahora están abandonadas y en ruinas.

3 Ellos provocaron mi enojo con toda su perversidad. Quemaban incienso y rendían culto a otros dioses, dioses que ni ellos ni ustedes ni ninguno de sus antepasados conocieron.

4 »Una y otra vez envié a mis siervos, los profetas, para rogarles: “No hagan estas cosas horribles que tanto detesto”,

5 pero mi pueblo no quiso escucharme ni apartarse de su conducta perversa. Siguieron quemando incienso a esos dioses.