Isaiah 1:3-6 New King James Version

³^(A)The ox knows its owner
And the donkey its master’s ^[a]crib;
But Israel ^(B)does not know,
My people do not ^[b]consider.”

⁴Alas, sinful nation,
A people ^[c]laden with iniquity,
^(C)A ^[d]brood of evildoers,
Children who are corrupters!
They have forsaken the Lord,
They have provoked to anger
The Holy One of Israel,
They have turned away backward.

⁵^(D)Why should you be stricken again?
You will revolt more and more.
The whole head is sick,
And the whole heart faints.
⁶From the sole of the foot even to the head,
There is no soundness in it,
But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
They have not been closed or bound up,
Or soothed with ointment.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 1:3 manger or feed trough
Isaiah 1:3 understand
Isaiah 1:4 Lit. heavy, weighed down
Isaiah 1:4 offspring, seed

Cross references

Jeremiah 8:5-10 New King James Version

⁵Why has this people ^(A)slidden back,
Jerusalem, in a perpetual backsliding?
^(B)They hold fast to deceit,
^(C)They refuse to return.
⁶^(D)I listened and heard,
But they do not speak aright.
^(E)No man repented of his wickedness,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his own course,
As the horse rushes into the battle.

⁷“Even ^(F)the stork in the heavens
Knows her appointed times;
And the turtledove, the swift, and the swallow
Observe the time of their coming.
But ^(G)My people do not know the judgment of the Lord.

⁸“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
^(H)And the law of the Lord is with us’?
Look, the false pen of the scribe certainly works falsehood.
⁹^(I)The wise men are ashamed,
They are dismayed and taken.
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord;
So ^(J)what wisdom do they have?
¹⁰Therefore ^(K)I will give their wives to others,
And their fields to those who will inherit them;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is given to ^(L)covetousness;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone deals falsely.