Jeremiah 2:25-27

New American Standard Bible 1995

²⁵ “Keep your feet from being unshod
And your throat from thirst;
But you said, ‘^(A)It is ^[a]hopeless!
No! For I have ^(B)loved strangers,
And after them I will walk.’

²⁶ “As the ^(C)thief is shamed when he is discovered,
So the house of Israel is shamed;
They, their kings, their princes
And their priests and their prophets,
²⁷ Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their ^(D)back to Me,
And not their face;
But in the ^(E)time of their ^[b]trouble they will say,
‘Arise and save us.’