Jeremiah 2:25-27

International Standard Version

²⁵ “Don’t run until your feet are bare
    and your throat is dry.^[a]
But you say, ‘It’s hopeless!
    Because I love foreign gods,^[b] I’ll go after them!’”

²⁶ “As a thief is disgraced when he’s caught,
    so the house of Israel is disgraced—
        they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
²⁷ who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
    and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
They have turned their back to me,
    but not their faces.
In the time of their trouble, they’ll say,
    ‘Rise up! Deliver us!’”