Jer 2:27, 18:17 | ESV | STEP | who say to a tree , You are my father , and to a stone , You gave me birth . For they have turned their back to me, and not their face . But in the time of their trouble they say , Arise and save us!

b Gen. 41:6, 23, 27; Ex. 10:13; Job 27:21; Ps. 48:7; Ezek. 27:26; Hos. 13:15; Jonah 4:8

Jeremiah 2:27

27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
and not their face.
But ^ain the time of their trouble they say,
‘Arise and save us!’

Jeremiah 18:17

17 ^bLike the east wind ^cI will scatter them
before the enemy.
^dI will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.”