27 They are saying to a tree, ‘You are my father,’+ and to a stone, ‘You yourself brought me to birth.’ But to me they have turned the back of the neck and not the face.+ And in the time of their calamity they will say, ‘Do rise up and save us!’+

16 So he brought me to the inner courtyard of the house of Jehovah,+ and, look! at the entrance of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar,+ there were about twenty-five men*+ with their backs to the temple* of Jehovah+ and their faces to the east, and they were bowing down to the east, to the sun.+