⁴ Ah, sinful nation,
    a people laden with iniquity,
^(A)offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
    they have ^(B)despised ^(C)the Holy One of Israel,
    they are utterly ^(D)estranged.

⁵ Why will you still be ^(E)struck down?
    Why will you ^(F)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
    and the whole heart faint.
^6 (G)From the sole of the foot even to the head,
    there is no soundness in it,
but bruises and sores
    and raw wounds;
they are ^(H)not pressed out or bound up
    or softened with oil.

¹⁸ “Come now, ^(A)let us reason^[a] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as ^(B)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
^19 (C)If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
²⁰ but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    ^(D)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”