You behaved more wickedly than all who were before you.(A) In order to provoke Me, you have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and cast images,(B) but you have flung Me behind your back.(C)

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You have done more evil(A) than all who lived before you.(B) You have made for yourself other gods, idols(C) made of metal; you have aroused(D) my anger and turned your back on me.(E)

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27 say to a tree, “You are my father,”
and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”
For they have turned their back to Me
and not their face,(A)
yet in their time of disaster(B) they beg,
“Rise up and save us!”

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27 They say to wood,(A) ‘You are my father,’
    and to stone,(B) ‘You gave me birth.’
They have turned their backs(C) to me
    and not their faces;(D)
yet when they are in trouble,(E) they say,
    ‘Come and save(F) us!’

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33 They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them time and time again,[a](A) they do not listen and receive discipline.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 32:33 Lit them, rising up early and teaching

33 They turned their backs(A) to me and not their faces; though I taught(B) them again and again, they would not listen or respond to discipline.(C)

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