Jer 2:27, 7:24, 18:17, Eze 8:16, Hos 11:2, Zec 7:11 | 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!

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 7:24

24 ^bBut they did not obey or incline their ear, ^cbut walked in their own counsels and ^dthe stubbornness of their evil hearts, and ^ewent backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 18:17

17 ^fLike the east wind ^gI will scatter them
before the enemy.
^hI will show them my back, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.”

Ezekiel 8:16

16 And he brought me into ⁱthe inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, ^jbetween the ^kporch and ^lthe altar, were about twenty-five men, ^mwith their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping ⁿthe sun toward the east.

Hosea 11:2

2 ^oThe more they were called,
the more they went away;
^pthey kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.

Zechariah 7:11

11 But ^qthey refused to pay attention ^rand turned a stubborn shoulder and stopped their ears that they might not hear. ^{▼▼Hebrew and made their ears too heavy to hear}