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Jeremiah 2:27

Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

KJV

dicentes ligno : Pater meus es tu : et lapidi : Tu me genuisti. Verterunt ad me tergum et non faciem, et in tempore afflictionis suæ dicent : Surge, et libera nos.

Vulgate

τῷ ξύλῳ εἶπαν ὅτι Πατήρ μου εἶ σύ, καὶ τῷ λίθῳ Σὺ ἐγέννησάς με· καὶ ἔστρεψαν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ νῶτα καὶ οὐ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τῶν κακῶν αὐτῶν ἐροῦσιν Ἀνάστα καὶ σῶσον ἡμᾶς.

LXX

who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

ASV

אֹמְרִ֨ים לָ/עֵ֜ץ אָ֣בִ/י אַ֗תָּה וְ/לָ/אֶ֨בֶן֙ אַ֣תְּ ילדת/ני יְלִדְתָּ֔/נוּ כִּֽי פָנ֥וּ אֵלַ֛/י עֹ֖רֶף וְ/לֹ֣א פָנִ֑ים וּ/בְ/עֵ֤ת רָֽעָתָ/ם֙ יֹֽאמְר֔וּ ק֖וּמָ/ה וְ/הוֹשִׁיעֵֽ/נוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣בֶן
'bn
noun · 267×
אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
הוֹלִ֣יד
hvlyd
verb · 478×
ו
v
noun · 1201×
יִּ֤פֶן
ypn
verb · 135×
יָּ֣קָם
yqm
verb · 626×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
נִי
ny
verb · 204×
עֵ֣ץ
'ts
noun · 324×
עֵ֣ת
't
verb · 293×
עֹ֖רֶף
'rp
noun · 33×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

He advances to puberty, and indeed to the early part of the sixteenth year of his age, in which, having abandoned his studies, he indulged in lustful pleasures, and, with his companions, committed theft. Chapter 1. He Deplores the Wickedness of His Youth. 1. I Will now call to mind my past foulness, and the carnal corruptions of my soul, not because I love them, but that I may …

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 29:6 — For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD, and turned their
  • Ezek 8:16 — And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward
  • Hab 2:18 — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
  • Hos 4:12 — My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
  • Hos 5:15 — I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
  • Hos 7:14 — And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
  • Isa 26:16 — LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
  • Isa 33:2 — O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
  • Isa 44:9 — They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
  • Jer 3:4 — Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
  • Jer 3:9 — And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
  • Jer 7:24 — But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
  • Jer 18:17 — I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
  • Jer 32:33 — And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.
  • Jer 37:3 — And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the LORD our God for us.
  • Ps 27:5 — For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.