For our fathers have trespassed and done evil in the eyes of the Lord our God; they have forsaken Him, have (A)turned their faces away from the [a]dwelling place of the Lord, and turned their backs on Him.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 29:6 Temple

Our parents(A) were unfaithful;(B) they did evil in the eyes of the Lord our God and forsook him. They turned their faces away from the Lord’s dwelling place and turned their backs on him.

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27 Saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a (A)stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to Me, and not their face.
But in the time of their (B)trouble
They will say, ‘Arise 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 And they have turned to Me the (A)back, and not the face; though I taught them, (B)rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

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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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39 For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed (A)thus they have done in the midst of My house.

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39 On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated(A) it. That is what they did in my house.(B)

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