¹⁹ But am I the one they are provoking?^(A) declares the Lord. Are they not rather harming themselves, to their own shame?^(B)

³⁰ “The people of Israel and Judah have done nothing but evil in my sight from their youth;^(A) indeed, the people of Israel have done nothing but arouse my anger^(B) with what their hands have made,^(C) declares the Lord. ³¹ From the day it was built until now, this city^(D) has so aroused my anger and wrath that I must remove^(E) it from my sight. ³² The people of Israel and Judah have provoked^(F) me by all the evil^(G) they have done—they, their kings and officials,^(H) their priests and prophets, the people of Judah and those living in Jerusalem.

⁸ Why arouse my anger with what your hands have made,^(A) burning incense^(B) to other gods in Egypt,^(C) where you have come to live?^(D) You will destroy yourselves and make yourselves a curse^[a] and an object of reproach^(E) among all the nations on earth.