For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and they have abandoned Him and (A)turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have [a]turned their backs.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 29:6 Lit given

Our parents(A) were unfaithful;(B) they did evil in the eyes of the Lord our God and forsook him. They turned their faces away from the Lord’s dwelling place and turned their backs on him.

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27 Who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
And to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their (A)backs to Me,
And not their faces;
But in the (B)time of their [a]trouble they will say,
‘Arise and save us!’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 2:27 Or evil

27 They say to wood,(A) ‘You are my father,’
    and to stone,(B) ‘You gave me birth.’
They have turned their backs(C) to me
    and not their faces;(D)
yet when they are in trouble,(E) they say,
    ‘Come and save(F) us!’

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39 For when they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My (A)sanctuary on the same day to profane it; and behold, this is what they did within My house.

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39 On the very day they sacrificed their children to their idols, they entered my sanctuary and desecrated(A) it. That is what they did in my house.(B)

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