Isaiah 1:2–9
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:
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.