^{5 Ref} Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will 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 putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.

^{7 Ref} 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 Ref} And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

^{9 Ref} Except 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 Ref} Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

^{11 Ref} To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

^{12 Ref} When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

^{13 Ref} Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

^{14 Ref} Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

^{15 Ref} And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

^{16 Ref} Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

^{17 Ref} Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

^{18 Ref} Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

^{19 Ref} If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

^{20 Ref} But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.

^{21 Ref} How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.

^{22 Ref} Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:

^{23 Ref} Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

^{24 Ref} Therefore saith the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies: