say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer.
They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bea
I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their ca
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they
who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on th
So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, betwe
But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend,
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own cr
They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Though I taught them again and again, they would not listen or r
O inhabitant of Lebanon, nestled in the cedars, how you will groan when pangs of anguish come upon you, agony like a wom
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly se
When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.
a wild donkey at home in the wilderness, sniffing the wind in the heat of her desire. Who can restrain her passion? All