For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and have forsaken 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)back to Me,
And not their face;
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 had slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My (A)sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and lo, thus they did within My house.

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