Jeremiah 2:25-27

World English Bible

²⁵ “Keep your feet from being bare,
    and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is in vain.
    No, for I have loved strangers,
    and I will go after them.’
²⁶ As the thief is ashamed when he is found,
    so the house of Israel is ashamed:
    they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
²⁷ who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’
    and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’
for they have turned their back to me,
    and not their face;
    but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’