¹⁹ No one comes to his senses;^[a]
no one has the perception or insight to say,
“I burned half of it in the fire,
I also baked bread on its coals,
I roasted meat and ate.
Should I make something detestable^(A) with the rest of it?
Should I bow down to a block of wood?”

²⁷ say to a tree, “You are my father,”
and to a stone, “You gave birth to me.”
For they have turned their back to me
and not their face,^(A)
yet in their time of disaster^(B) they beg,
“Rise up and save us!”