Jer 2:27, Eze 8:16 | 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!’

Ezekiel 8:16

16 And he brought me into ^bthe inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, ^cbetween the ^dporch and ^ethe altar, were about twenty-five men, ^fwith their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping ^gthe sun toward the east.