27 who say to a jtree, ‘You are my father,’
and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have kturned their back to me,
and not their face.
But in the time of their trouble they say,
‘Arise and save us!’
17 Like the east wind I will scatter them
before the enemy.
I will show them my dback, not my face,
in the day of their calamity.”
33 They have turned to me their hback and not their face. And though I have taught them ipersistently, they have not listened to jreceive instruction.
16 And he brought me into the sinner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, tat the entrance of the temple of the Lord, ubetween the porch and the altar, were about vtwenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, wworshiping the sun toward the east.