1. The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2. Hear, heavens, and listen, earth, for Yahweh has spoken: “I reared children and I brought them up, but they rebelled against me.
3. An ox knows its owner and a donkey the manger of its master. Israel does not know; my people do not understand.
4. Ah, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. They have forsaken Yahweh; they have despised the holy one of Israel. They are estranged and gone backward.
5. Why do you want to be beaten again? You continue in rebellion. The whole of the head is sick, and the whole of the heart is faint.
6. From the sole of the foot and up to the head there is no health in it; bruise and sore and bleeding wound have not been cleansed, and they have not been bound up and not softened with the oil.
7. Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; As for your land, aliens are devouring it in your presence, and it is desolate, like devastation by foreigners.
8. And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a shelter in a cucumber field, like a city that is besieged.