Isaiah 1:2-9

New International Version

A Rebellious Nation

²Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!^(A)
    For the Lord has spoken:^(B)
“I reared children^(C) and brought them up,
    but they have rebelled^(D) against me.
³The ox knows^(E) its master,
    the donkey its owner’s manger,^(F)
but Israel does not know,^(G)
    my people do not understand.^(H)”

⁴Woe to the sinful nation,
    a people whose guilt is great,^(I)
a brood of evildoers,^(J)
    children given to corruption!^(K)
They have forsaken^(L) the Lord;
    they have spurned the Holy One^(M) of Israel
    and turned their backs^(N) on him.

⁵Why should you be beaten^(O) anymore?
    Why do you persist^(P) in rebellion?^(Q)
Your whole head is injured,
    your whole heart^(R) afflicted.^(S)
⁶From the sole of your foot to the top of your head^(T)
    there is no soundness^(U)—
only wounds and welts^(V)
    and open sores,
not cleansed or bandaged^(W)
    or soothed with olive oil.^(X)

⁷Your country is desolate,^(Y)
    your cities burned with fire;^(Z)
your fields are being stripped by foreigners^(AA)
    right before you,
    laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.^(AB)
⁸Daughter Zion^(AC) is left^(AD)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut^(AE) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.
⁹Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,^(AF)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.^(AG)