*The avision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem aain the days of bUzziah, cJotham, dAhaz, and eHezekiah, kings of Judah.

2  fHear, O heavens, and ggive ear, O earth:

For the Lord hath spoken,

I have ggnourished and brought up children,

And they have rebelled against me.

3  hThe ox knoweth his owner,

And the ass his master’s icrib:

But Israel kldoth not know,

My people ldoth not consider.

4  Ah sinful nation, a people †laden with iniquity,

mA seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters:

They have forsaken the Lord,

They have nprovoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger,

They are †gone away backward.

5  oWhy should ye be stricken any more?

Ye will †revolt more and more:

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

6  From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no psoundness in it;

But qwounds, and qrbruises, and sputrifying sores:

They have not been closed, neither bound up, neither tmollified with ||ointment.

7  uYour country is desolate,

Your cities are burned with fire:

Your land, strangers devour it in your presence,

And it is desolate, †as overthrown by strangers.

8  And the daughter of Zion is left vas a cottage in a vineyard,

As vva lodge win a garden of cucumbers,

As a besieged city.

9  xExcept the Lord of hosts had left unto us ya very small remnant,

We should have been as zSodom,

And we should have been like unto zGomorrah.