7. Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire: your country strangers devour before your face, and it shall be desolate as when wasted by enemies.
8. And the daughter of Sion shall be left as a covert in a vineyard, and as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, and as a city that is laid waste.
9. Except the Lord of hosts had left us seed, we had been as Sodom, and we should have been like to Gomorrha.
10. Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.
11. To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
12. When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
13. Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.
14. My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
15. And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
16. Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
17. Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18. And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool,