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Yahweh continues speaking to Jeremiah.

in order to provoke me

"so that I would become very angry"

doing evil before my eyes

Here the metonym "eyes" represents what God sees. Possible meanings are 1) "doing what I consider evil" or 2) "doing evil knowing that I am watching" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

since their youth

A person being young is a metaphor for the people of Israel first becoming a nation. AT: "from the time they were young" or "from the time that they became a nation" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)

the practices of their hands

The word "hands" is a metonym for the things the person does with his hands. AT: "the evil things they have done" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)

this is Yahweh's declaration

Yahweh speaks of himself by name to express the certainty of what he is declaring. See how you translated this in Jeremiah 1:8. AT: "this is what Yahweh has declared" or "this is what I, Yahweh, have declared" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-123person)

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