Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

General references

Bible References

To a stock

Jeremiah 10:8
But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.
Psalm 115:4
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands:
Isaiah 44:9
They that form a graven image are all of them vanity, and their delectable things are of no profit; and they are their own witnesses: they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 46:6
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance; they hire a goldsmith, and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
Habakkuk 2:18
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it? the molten image, and the teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work dependeth thereon, to make dumb idols?

For they

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

But in the time

Jeremiah 2:24
a wild ass, used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire! In her ardour, who shall turn her away? All they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
Jeremiah 22:23
Thou inhabitress of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how pitiful shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, pain as of a woman in travail!
Judges 10:8
and they crushed and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Psalm 78:34
When he slew them, then they sought him, and returned and sought early after God;
Isaiah 26:16
Jehovah, in trouble they sought thee; they poured out their whispered prayer when thy chastening was upon them.
Hosea 5:15
I will go away, I will return to my place, till they acknowledge their trespass, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.
Hosea 7:14
And they cried not unto me in their heart, when they howled upon their beds; they assemble themselves for corn and new wine; they have turned aside from me.

General references

Isaiah 45:16
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them; they shall go away in confusion together, the makers of idols.