Isaiah 1:3–11

^3dThe ox knows its owner

And the donkey its master’s ¹crib;

But Israel ^edoes not know,

My people do not ²consider.”

⁴Alas, sinful nation,

A people ³laden with iniquity,

^fA ⁴brood of evildoers,

Children who are corrupters!

They have forsaken the Lord,

They have provoked to anger

The Holy One of Israel,

They have turned away backward.

^5gWhy should you be stricken again?

You will revolt more and more.

The whole head is sick,

And the whole heart faints.

⁶From the sole of the foot even to the head,

There is no soundness in it,

But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;

They have not been closed or bound up,

Or soothed with ointment.

^7hYour country is desolate,

Your cities are burned with fire;

Strangers devour your land in your presence;

And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

⁸So the daughter of Zion is left ⁱas a ⁵booth in a vineyard,

As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,

^jAs a besieged city.

^9kUnless the Lord of hosts

Had left to us a very small remnant,

We would have become like ^lSodom,

We would have been made like Gomorrah.

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord,

You rulers ^mof Sodom;

Give ear to the law of our God,

You people of Gomorrah:

¹¹“To what purpose is the multitude of your ⁿsacrifices to Me?”

Says the Lord.

“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams

And the fat of fed cattle.

I do not delight in the blood of bulls,

Or of lambs or goats.