Jer 2:27, 7:13 | 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!

c Prov. 1:24; [ver. 27; Isa. 50:2; 65:12]

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 7:13

13 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the Lord, and ^bwhen I spoke to you persistently you did not listen, and ^cwhen I called you, you did not answer,