9:26 “Nonetheless they grew disobedient and rebelled against you; they disregarded your law. 1 They killed your prophets who had solemnly admonished them in order to cause them to return to you. They committed atrocious blasphemies.
50:17 For you hate instruction
and reject my words. 2
2:27 They say to a wooden idol, 3 ‘You are my father.’
They say to a stone image, ‘You gave birth to me.’ 4
Yes, they have turned away from me instead of turning to me. 5
Yet when they are in trouble, they say, ‘Come and save us!’
1 tn Heb “they cast your law behind their backs.”
2 tn Heb “and throw my words behind you.”
3 tn Heb “wood…stone…”
4 sn The reference to wood and stone is, of course, a pejorative reference to idols made by human hands. See the next verse where reference is made to “the gods you have made.”
5 tn Heb “they have turned [their] backs to me, not [their] faces.”