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.