Isaiah 1:1-9

¹The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, that he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

²Hear, heavens, and give ear, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me.

³The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's feeding trough, but Israel does not know, Israel does not understand.”

⁴Woe! Nation, sinners, a people weighed down with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they have estranged themselves from him.

⁵Why are you still being beaten? Why do you rebel more and more? The whole head is sick, the whole heart is weak.

⁶From the sole of the foot to the head there is no part unharmed; only wounds, and bruises, and fresh open wounds; they have not been closed, cleansed, bandaged, nor treated with oil.

⁷Your country is ruined; your cities are burned; your fields—in your presence, strangers are destroying them— abandoned devastation, overthrown by strangers.

⁸The daughter of Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard, like a shed in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.

⁹If Yahweh of hosts had not left for us a small remnant, we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah.