25 Keep (A)your feet from going unshod
    and (B)your throat from thirst.
But you said, ‘It is hopeless,
    (C)for I have loved foreigners,
    and after them I will go.’

26 “As a thief is shamed when caught,
    so the house of Israel shall be shamed:
(D)they, their kings, their officials,
    their priests, and their prophets,
27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’
    and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their back to me,
    and not their face.
But (E)in the time of their trouble they say,
    ‘Arise and save us!’

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