Isaiah 1:2-9

New King James Version

The Wickedness of Judah

²^(A)Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!
For the Lord has spoken:
“I have nourished and brought up children,
And they have rebelled against Me;
³^(B)The ox knows its owner
And the donkey its master’s ^[a]crib;
But Israel ^(C)does not know,
My people do not ^[b]consider.”

⁴Alas, sinful nation,
A people ^[c]laden with iniquity,
^(D)A ^[d]brood 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.

⁵^(E)Why 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.

⁷^(F)Your 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 ^(G)as a ^[e]booth in a vineyard,
As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,
^(H)As a besieged city.
⁹^(I)Unless the Lord of hosts
Had left to us a very small remnant,
We would have become like ^(J)Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.