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Jer 2:27 — Saying 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 will say, Arise, and save us.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

to a stock		Jer 10:8; Psa 115:4-8; Isa 44:9-20; Isa 46:6-8; Hab 2:18,19
brought me forth		or, begotten me
for they		Eze 8:16; Eze 23:35
their back		Heb. the hinder part of the neck
but in the time		Jer 2:24; Jer 22:23; Jdg 10:8-16; Psa 78:34-37; Isa 26:16; Hsa 5:15; Hsa 7:14

Correlating Passages

to a stock

	Jer 10:8	But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.
	Psa 115:4	Their idols [are] silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
	Psa 115:5	They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
	Psa 115:6	They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
	Psa 115:7	They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
	Psa 115:8	They that make them are like unto them; [so is] every one that trusteth in them.
	Isa 44:9	They that make a graven image [are] all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they [are] their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
	Isa 44:10	Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image [that] is profitable for nothing?
	Isa 44:11	Behold, all his fellows shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they [are] of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; [yet] they shall fear, [and] they shall be ashamed together.
	Isa 44:12	The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
	Isa 44:13	The carpenter stretcheth out [his] rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
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	Isa 46:6	They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, [and] hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
	Isa 46:7	They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, [one] shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
	Isa 46:8	Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring [it] again to mind, O ye transgressors.
	Hab 2:18	What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
	Hab 2:19	Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it.

for they

	Eze 8:16	And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, [were] about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
	Eze 23:35	Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

but in the time

	Jer 2:24	A wild ass used to the wilderness, [that] snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
	Jer 22:23	O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!
	Jdg 10:8	And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that [were] on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which [is] in Gilead.
	Jdg 10:9	Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
	Jdg 10:10	And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
	Jdg 10:11	And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, [Did] not [I deliver you] from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
	Jdg 10:12	The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.
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	Psa 78:34	When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
	Psa 78:35	And they remembered that God [was] their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
	Psa 78:36	Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
	Psa 78:37	For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
	Isa 26:16	LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer [when] thy chastening [was] upon them.
	Hsa 5:15	I will go [and] return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
	Hsa 7:14	And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, [and] they rebel against me.

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