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Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.

were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”

Her rival provoked her severely, to irritate her, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman; for I have been speaking out of the abundance of my complaint and my provocation.”

for the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and with which he made Israel to sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked Yahweh, the God of Israel, to anger.

I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah for the provocation with which you have provoked me to anger, and have made Israel to sin.”

Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn’t turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.

My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.