...transgress while upon every high Iiill and under every green tree, they wandered, playing the harlot ; saying to a stock, Thou art my father, and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth." They turned their back unto God, and not their face; "Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity,...

...not open their ears and turn their faces to Him ? Without being materialists in their creed, they say to a stock, " Thou art my father ; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth ; for they have turned their back unto me and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they...

...deaf and dumb ; now, the image Jer. ii 27 ?f ^OD hath turned to the Creator thereof ; I that was " saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou s. Matt. vi. hast brought me forth," now say, " Our FATHEB, Which art in heaven." / called unto Him...

...is a heathen temple, and a "city wholly given to idolatry." The people are mad upon their idols — saying to a stock, Thou art my father ; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth. Yes, literally ; for have I not seen them, in that very city, praying for offspring to a stone, and...

...idolatry — the sin which eventually exiled them from their own land. We find him upbraiding them with " saying to a stock, Thou art my father ; and to A STONE, Thou hast brought me forth." * And who were they who thus ascribed their deliverance from some foreign land (or, it may be, their...

...found, So stands the house of Israel ashamed, They, their kings, princes, priests, and prophets, Who say to a stock, ' Thou art my father !' And to a stone, ' Thou hast brought me forth !' For they have turned their back unto me, and not their face, But in their trouble they will say,...

...found, So stands the house of Israel ashamed, They, their kings, princes, priests, and prophets, Who say to a stock, ' Thou art my father !' And to a stone, ' Thou hast brought me forth !' For they have turned their back unto me, and not their face, But in their trouble they will say,...

...the neck. a IM. 26. 18. Ij IBS. 45. 20. 8 Hcl.., evil. c cb. 11 IS. priests, and their prophets, W saying to a stock, Thou art my father ; and to a stone, Thou hast 6 brought me forth : for they have turned 7 their back unto me, and not their face : but in the time...

...be put to shame. They and their kings and their chiefs and their priests and 27 their prophets, said to a stock, Thou art my father ; and to a stone, Thou hast begotten me. And turned their backs to me and not their faces : yet in the time of their troubles they...

...Israel, for whom He had done so much, turn from Him to strangers. Bitter, indeed, to hear them say to a stock, ' Thou art my father ' ; and to a stone, 'Thou hast brought me forth.' Their apostasy was to God, as though a wife should go from the husband that doted upon her, and become...