Isaiah 1:3–11

^3hThe ox knoweth his owner,

And the ass his master’s ⁱcrib:

But Israel ^kldoth not know,

My people ^ldoth not consider.

⁴Ah 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.

^5oWhy should ye be stricken any more?

Ye will revolt more and more:

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

⁶From 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.

^7uYour country is desolate,

Your cities are burnt with fire:

Your land, strangers devour it in your presence,

And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

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

As ^vva lodge ^win a garden of cucumbers,

As a besieged city.

^9xExcept 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.

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord, ye ^arulers of ^bSodom;

Give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

¹¹To what purpose is ^cthe multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord:

I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts;

And I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.