Jeremia 44:3

3 Vanwege hun boosheid, die zij gedaan hebben, om Mij te tergen, gaande om te roken en andere goden te dienen, die zij niet kenden, zij, gij, noch uw vaders.

Jeremia 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.

Jeremia 44:3 In-Context

1 Het woord, dat tot Jeremia geschiedde aan al de Joden, die in Egypteland woonden, die te Migdol woonden, en te Tachpanhes, en te Nof, en in het land Pathros, zeggende:

2 Alzo zegt de HEERE der heirscharen, de God Israels: Gij hebt gezien al het kwaad, dat Ik gebracht heb over Jeruzalem en over alle steden van Juda; en ziet, zij zijn een woestheid te deze dage, en niemand woont daarin;

3 Vanwege hun boosheid, die zij gedaan hebben, om Mij te tergen, gaande om te roken en andere goden te dienen, die zij niet kenden, zij, gij, noch uw vaders.

4 En Ik heb tot u gezonden al Mijn knechten, de profeten, vroeg op zijnde en zendende, om te zeggen: Doet toch deze gruwelijke zaak niet, die Ik haat.

5 Maar zij hebben niet gehoord, noch hun oor geneigd, om zich van hun boosheid te bekeren, dat zij anderen goden niet roken.