^{4 Ref} Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged `and gone' backward.

^{5 Ref} Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

^{6 Ref} From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; `but' wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil.