Isaiah 1:4–9

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.