For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and they have abandoned Him and (A)turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have [a]turned their backs.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 29:6 Lit given

27 Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their (A)backs to Me,
And not their faces;
But in the (B)time of their [a]trouble they will say,
‘Arise and save us!’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:27 Or evil

39 For when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My (A)sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and behold, this is what they did within My house.

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