Jeremiah 2: 27

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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET
JEREMIAH

CHAPTER 2

27 Saying to ^aa stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their ^bback unto me, and not their face: but in the ^ctime of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

Footnotes

27a	OR wood; i.e. an idol. Jer. 3: 9. 9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and ^acommitted adultery with ^bstones and with ^cstocks.
b	Jer. 18: 17. 17 I will scatter them as with an ^aeast wind before the enemy: I will shew them the ^bback, and not ^cthe face, in the day of their calamity. Jer. 32: 33. 33 And they have turned unto me the ^aback, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. Ezek. 8: 16. 16 And he brought me into the inner ^acourt of the Lord’s house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the ^bporch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their ^cbacks toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped ^dthe sun toward the east.
c	Mosiah 11: 24 (22-25) 24 Yea, and it shall come to pass that when they shall ^acry unto me I will be ^bslow to hear their cries; yea, and I will suffer them that they be smitten by their enemies. D&C 101: 7 (7-9) 7 They were slow to ^ahearken unto the voice of the Lord their God; therefore, the Lord their God is slow to hearken unto their prayers, to answer them in the day of their trouble.