¹⁹ No one comes to his senses;^[a]
no one has the perception or insight to say,
‘I burned half of it in the fire,
I also baked bread on its coals,
I roasted meat and ate.
Should I make something detestable^(A) with the rest of it?
Should I bow down to a block of wood? ’

²⁷ say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
and to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’
For they have turned their back to me
and not their face,^(A)
yet in their time of disaster^(B) they beg,
‘Rise up and save us! ’