²⁵ Do not run until your feet are bare
    and your throat is dry.
But you said, ‘It’s no use!^(A)
    I love foreign gods,^(B)
    and I must go after them.’^(C)

²⁶ “As a thief is disgraced^(D) when he is caught,
    so the people of Israel are disgraced—
they, their kings and their officials,
    their priests^(E) and their prophets.^(F)
27 They say to wood,^(G) ‘You are my father,’
    and to stone,^(H) ‘You gave me birth.’
They have turned their backs^(I) to me
    and not their faces;^(J)
yet when they are in trouble,^(K) they say,
    ‘Come and save^(L) us!’