Among the [a](A)smooth stones of the [b]ravine
Is your portion, [c]they are your lot;
Even to them you have (B)poured out a drink offering,
You have made a grain offering.
Should I [d](C)relent of these things?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:6 I.e., symbols of fertility gods
  2. Isaiah 57:6 Or wadi
  3. Isaiah 57:6 Lit they, they
  4. Isaiah 57:6 Or repent

The idols(A) among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion;
    indeed, they are your lot.
Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings(B)
    and offered grain offerings.
    In view of all this, should I relent?(C)

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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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But they are altogether (A)stupid and foolish;
The instruction from idols is nothing but wood!

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They are all senseless(A) and foolish;(B)
    they are taught by worthless wooden idols.(C)

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