Jérémie 44:3

3 A cause du mal que leurs habitants ont commis pour m'irriter, en allant encenser et servir d'autres dieux, qu'ils n'ont point connus, ni eux, ni vous, ni vos pères.

Jérémie 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.

Jérémie 44:3 In-Context

1 La parole qui fut adressée à Jérémie pour tous les Juifs qui habitaient dans le pays d'Égypte, qui habitaient à Migdol, à Tachphanès, à Noph et au pays de Pathros, en ces mots:

2 Ainsi a dit l'Éternel des armées, le Dieu d'Israël: Vous avez vu tout le mal que j'ai fait venir sur Jérusalem et sur toutes les villes de Juda. Et voici, elles sont aujourd'hui un désert, et personne n'y habite;

3 A cause du mal que leurs habitants ont commis pour m'irriter, en allant encenser et servir d'autres dieux, qu'ils n'ont point connus, ni eux, ni vous, ni vos pères.

4 Et je vous ai envoyé tous mes serviteurs, les prophètes; je les ai envoyés dès le matin pour vous dire: Ne faites point cette chose abominable, que je hais!

5 Mais ils n'ont pas écouté, et n'ont pas prêté l'oreille, pour se détourner de leur méchanceté, et ne plus faire d'encensements à d'autres dieux.