Isaiah 1:7-12

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.

¹⁰Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

¹¹What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!

¹²When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?