² Hear, heavens,
    and listen, earth; for Yahweh^[a] has spoken:
“I have nourished and brought up children
    and they have rebelled against me.
³ The ox knows his owner,
    and the donkey his master’s crib;
    but Israel doesn’t know.
    My people don’t consider.”
⁴ Ah sinful nation,
    a people loaded with iniquity,
    offspring^[b] of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken Yahweh.
    They have despised the Holy One of Israel.
    They are estranged and backward.
⁵ Why should you be beaten more,
    that you revolt more and more?
The whole head is sick,
    and the whole heart faint.
⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it:
    wounds, welts, and open sores.
    They haven’t been closed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.
⁷ Your country is desolate.
    Your cities are burned with fire.
    Strangers devour your land in your presence
    and it is desolate,
    as overthrown by strangers.
⁸ The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard,
    like a hut in a field of melons,
    like a besieged city.
⁹ Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant,
    we would have been as Sodom.
    We would have been like Gomorrah.