Isaiah 1:4-9

⁴What a sinful nation—a people carrying such a load of guilt, an evil generation, corrupt children! They have abandoned the Lord. They have despised Israel's Holy One. They have become strangers. They have gone backwards.

⁵Are you wanting to be punished? Are you going to continue to rebel? The whole of your head is damaged, and your heart is totally giving out.

⁶You're injured from head to toe, bruised and sore, with open wounds that haven't been cleaned or bandaged or treated with olive oil.

⁷Your country has been devastated, your towns burned down, your fields stripped bare by foreigners right in front of you, as they turn it all into a wasteland.

⁸The daughter of Zion is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.

⁹If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.