27 They say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’+

And to a stone, ‘You gave birth to me.’

But to me they turn their back and not their face.+

16 So he brought me to the inner courtyard of the house of Jehovah.+ There at the entrance of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about 25 men with their backs to the temple of Jehovah and their faces to the east; they were bowing down to the sun in the east.+