Isaiah 1:5-11

English Standard Version

⁵ Why will you still be ^(A)struck down?
    Why will you ^(B)continue to rebel?
The whole head is sick,
    and the whole heart faint.
^6 (C)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 ^(D)not pressed out or bound up
    or softened with oil.

^7 (E)Your country lies desolate;
    your cities are burned with fire;
in your very presence
    foreigners devour your land;
    it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
⁸ And ^(F)the daughter of Zion is left
    like a ^(G)booth in a vineyard,
like a lodge in a cucumber field,
    like a besieged city.

^9 (H)If the Lord of hosts
    had not left us ^(I)a few survivors,
we should have been like ^(J)Sodom,
    and become like ^(K)Gomorrah.

¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord,
    you rulers of ^(L)(M)Sodom!
Give ear to the teaching^[a] of our God,
    you people of ^(N)Gomorrah!
^11 (O)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
    says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
    and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
    or of lambs, or of goats.