Jeremiah 44:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Ver. 8. In that ye provoke me to wrath.] This is a most pithy and piercing sermon all along, not unlike that preached by Stephen, for the which he was stoned, Acts 7:54 ; Act 7:57-58 and likely enough that this was Jeremiah's last sermon also.

Jeremiah 44:8

8 In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?