^19 (A)Your evil will chastise you,
    and ^(B)your apostasy will reprove you.
Know and see that it is evil and ^(C)bitter
    for ^(D)you to forsake the Lord your God;
    the fear of me is not in you,
declares the Lord God of hosts.

²⁷ who say to a tree, ‘You are my father’,
    and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
    and not their face.
But ^(A)in the time of their trouble they say,
    ‘Arise and save us!’

⁵ Why then has this people ^(A)turned away
    in perpetual ^(B)backsliding?
^(C)They hold fast to deceit;
    they refuse to return.

^6 (A)You have rejected me, declares the Lord;
    ^(B)you keep going backwards,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
    ^(C)I am weary of relenting.