Quotes about Provocation
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
— Psalm 78:58
So they provoked the LORD to anger with their deeds, and a plague broke out among them.
— Psalm 106:29
May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
— Psalm 140:9
A hot-tempered man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms dispute.
— Proverbs 15:18
As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
— Proverbs 25:23
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be like him.
— Proverbs 26:4
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
— Proverbs 26:21
An angry man stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered man abounds in transgression.
— Proverbs 29:22
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
— Ecclesiastes 7:9
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
— Isaiah 36:12
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
— Isaiah 37:28
to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
— Isaiah 65:3