^{5 Ref} Wherefore are ye stricken any more? Ye do add apostacy! Every head is become diseased, and every heart `is' sick.

^{6 Ref} From the sole of the foot -- unto the head, There is no soundness in it, Wound, and bruise, and fresh smiting! They have not been closed nor bound, Nor have they softened with ointment.

^{7 Ref} Your land `is' a desolation, your cities burnt with fire, Your ground, before you strangers are consuming it, And a desolation as overthrown by strangers!

^{8 Ref} And left hath been the daughter of Zion, As a booth in a vineyard, As a lodge in a place of cucumbers -- as a city besieged.

^{9 Ref} Unless Jehovah of Hosts had left to us a remnant, Shortly -- as Sodom we had been, To Gomorrah we had been like!

^{10 Ref} Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom, Give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah,

^{11 Ref} `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated `with' burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.

^{12 Ref} When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts?

^{13 Ref} Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it `is' to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint!

^{14 Ref} Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.

^{15 Ref} And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

^{16 Ref} Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

^{17 Ref} Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow.

^{18 Ref} Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

^{19 Ref} If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

^{20 Ref} And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, `By' the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

^{21 Ref} How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it `with' judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it -- now murderers.

^{22 Ref} Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.

^{23 Ref} Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

^{24 Ref} Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,