For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.

Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 28:5-7,18 And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter. . . .

2 Chronicles 33:11 Therefore he brought upon them the captains of he army of the king of the Assyrians: and they took Manasses, and carried him bound with chains and fetters to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:17-19 For he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, and he slew their young men with the sword in the house of his sanctuary, he had no compassion on young man, or maiden, old man or even him that stooped for age, but he delivered them all into his hands. . . .

Jeremiah 26:6,18 I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth. . . .

Lamentations 5:16,17 The crown is fallen from our head: woe to us, because we have sinned. . . .

Micah 3:12 Her princes have judged for bribes: and her priests have taught for hire, and her prophets divined for money: and they leaned upon the Lord, saying: Is not the Lord in the midst of us? no evil shall come among us.

because

Isaiah 5:18,19 Woe to you that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as the rope of a cart. . . .

Isaiah 57:4 Upon whom have you jested? upon whom have you opened your mouth wide, and put out your tongue? are not you wicked children, a false seed,

Psalm 73:8,9 They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high. . . .

Ezekiel 8:12 And he said to me: Surely thou seest, O son of man, what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in private in his chamber: for they say: The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

Ezekiel 9:9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.

Hosea 7:16 They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

Malachi 3:13-15 Your words have been unsufferable to me, saith the Lord. . . .

Matthew 12:36,37 But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment. . . .

Jude 1:15 To execute judgment upon all and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly: and for all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.

to provoke

Isaiah 65:3-5 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks. . . .

2 Chronicles 33:6,7 And he made his sons to pass through the fire in the valley of Benennom: he observed dreams, followed divinations, gave himself up to magic arts, had with him magicians, and enchanters: and he wrought many evils before the Lord, to provoke him to anger. . . .

Ezekiel 8:4-6,17,18 And behold the glory of the God of Israel was there, according to the vision which I had seen in the plain. . . .

Habakkuk 1:13 Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.