2 Hear O heavens and give ear O earth for the LORD hath spoken I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me
3 The ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib but Israel doth not know my people doth not consider
4 Ah sinful nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evildoers children that are corrupters they have forsaken __ the LORD they have provoked __ the Holy One of Israel unto anger they are gone away backward
5 Why should ye be stricken any more ye 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 putrifying sores they have not been closed neither bound up neither mollified 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 cottage in a vineyard as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers as a besieged city
9 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 Hear the word of the LORD ye rulers of Sodom give ear unto the law of our God ye people of Gomorrah
11 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 When ye come to appear before me who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts
13 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 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth they are a trouble unto me I am weary to bear them
15 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 Wash you make you clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil
17 Learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widow
18 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 If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land
20 But if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured with the sword for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it but now murderers
22 Thy silver is become dross thy wine mixed with water
23 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 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
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross and take away all thy tin
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first and thy counsellors as at the beginning afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness the faithful city
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment and her converts with righteousness
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth and as a garden that hath no water
31 And the strong shall be as tow and the maker of it as a spark and they shall both burn together and none shall quench them
