19 No one [a]recalls, nor is there (A)knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then [b]I make the rest of it into an (B)abomination, [c]I fall down before a block of wood!”

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  1. Isaiah 44:19 Lit returns to his heart
  2. Isaiah 44:19 Or shall I make?
  3. Isaiah 44:19 Or shall I fall...?

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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  1. Jeremiah 2:27 Or evil