3. The ox knows its owner,and the donkey its master’s crib,but Israel does not know,my people do not understand.”
4. Ah, sinful nation,a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers,children who deal corruptly!They have forsaken the Lord,they have despised the Holy One of Israel,they are utterly estranged.
5. Why will you still be struck down?Why will you continue to rebel?The whole head is sick,and the whole heart faint.
6. From the sole of the foot even to the head,there is no soundness in it,but bruises and soresand raw wounds;they are not pressed out or bound upor softened with oil.
7. Your country lies desolate;your cities are burned with fire;in your very presenceforeigners devour your land;it is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners.
8. And the daughter of Zion is leftlike a booth in a vineyard,like a lodge in a cucumber field,like a besieged city.
9. If the Lord of hostshad not left us a few survivors,we should have been like Sodom,and become like Gomorrah.