3. The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master's crib: but Israel does not know, my people do not consider.
4. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a descendant of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they have turned away backward.
5. Why should you be stricken any more? you will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6. From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither soothed with ointment.
7. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8. And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9. Unless the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10. Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.
11. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
12. When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
13. Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.
15. And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16. Wash you, make yourself clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
17. Learn to do good; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18. Come now, and let us reason together,
19. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land: