Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Provocaverunt eum in diis alienis, et in abominationibus ad iracundiam concitaverunt.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- παρώξυνάν με ἐπ᾽ ἀλλοτρίοις, ἐν βδελύγμασιν αὐτῶν παρεπίκρανάν με·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- יַקְנִאֻ֖הוּ בְּזָרִ֑ים בְּתוֹעֵבֹ֖ת יַכְעִיסֻֽהוּ
The Fathers on this verse
St Justin Martyr Dialogue with Trypho, Chapter CXIX. Christians are the
Then I said again, “Would you suppose, sirs, that we could ever have understood these matters in the Scriptures, if we had not received grace to discern by the will of Him whose pleasure it was? in order that the saying of Moses might come to pass, ‘They provoked me with strange [gods], they provoked me to anger with their abominations. They sacrificed to demons whom they knew not; new gods that came newly up, whom their fathers knew not. Thou hast forsaken God that begat thee, and forgotten God that brought thee up. And the Lord saw, and was jealous, and was provoked to anger by reason of the rage of His sons and daughters: and He said, I will turn My face away from them, and I will show what shall come on them at the last; for it is a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith. …