Jeremiah 2:25-27

World English Bible

²⁵ “Keep your feet from being bare,
    and your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is in vain.
    No, for I have loved strangers,
    and I will go after them.’
²⁶ As the thief is ashamed when he is found,
    so the house of Israel is ashamed—
    they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,
²⁷ who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’
    and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’
for they have turned their back to me,
    and not their face,
    but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’