⁷ “Listen, my people, and I will speak;
    I will testify^(Q) against you, Israel:
    I am God, your God.^(R)
8 I bring no charges^(S) against you concerning your sacrifices
    or concerning your burnt offerings,^(T) which are ever before me.

²² “Consider this, you who forget God,^(A)
    or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:^(B)
23 Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me,
    and to the blameless^[a] I will show my salvation.^(C)”

⁴ Woe 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.

⁵ Why 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)
6 From 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)

⁷ Your 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)
8 Daughter Zion^(AC) is left^(AD)
    like a shelter in a vineyard,
like a hut^(AE) in a cucumber field,
    like a city under siege.
⁹ Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,^(AF)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.^(AG)

²¹ See how the faithful city
    has become a prostitute!^(A)
She once was full of justice;
    righteousness^(B) used to dwell in her—
    but now murderers!^(C)
22 Your silver has become dross,^(D)
    your choice wine is diluted with water.
²³ Your rulers are rebels,^(E)
    partners with thieves;^(F)
they all love bribes^(G)
    and chase after gifts.
They do not defend the cause of the fatherless;
    the widow’s case does not come before them.^(H)