29 And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will enter and (A)set this city on fire and burn it, with the (B)houses where people have offered incense to Baal on their roofs and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke Me to anger.

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29 The Babylonians who are attacking this city will come in and set it on fire; they will burn it down,(A) along with the houses(B) where the people aroused my anger by burning incense on the roofs to Baal and by pouring out drink offerings(C) to other gods.(D)

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(A)because of their wickedness which they committed to (B)provoke Me to anger by continuing to (C)burn [a]sacrifices and to (D)serve other gods whom they had not known, neither they, you, nor your fathers.

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  1. Jeremiah 44:3 Or incense

because of the evil(A) they have done. They aroused my anger(B) by burning incense(C) to and worshiping other gods(D) that neither they nor you nor your ancestors(E) ever knew.

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(A)provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, (B)burning [a]sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt where you are entering to reside, so that you may be eliminated and become a (C)curse and a disgrace among all the nations of the earth?

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  1. Jeremiah 44:8 Or incense

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.

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  1. Jeremiah 44:8 That is, your name will be used in cursing (see 29:22); or, others will see that you are cursed; also in verse 12; similarly in verse 22.