6. From the sole of the foot to the headthere is no sound spot in it;Just bruise and welt and oozing wound,not drained, or bandaged,or eased with salve.
7. Your country is waste,your cities burnt with fire;Your land—before your eyesstrangers devour it,a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.
8. And daughter Zion is leftlike a hut in a vineyard,Like a shed in a melon patch,like a city blockaded.
9. If the Lord of hosts had notleft us a small remnant,We would have become as Sodom,would have resembled Gomorrah.
10. Hear the word of the Lord,princes of Sodom!Listen to the instruction of our God,people of Gomorrah!
11. What do I care for the multitude of your sacrifices?says the Lord.I have had enough of whole-burnt ramsand fat of fatlings;In the blood of calves, lambs, and goatsI find no pleasure.
12. When you come to appear before me,who asks these things of you?
13. Trample my courts no more!To bring offerings is useless;incense is an abomination to me.New moon and sabbath, calling assemblies—festive convocations with wickedness—these I cannot bear.
14. Your new moons and festivals I detest;they weigh me down, I tire of the load.
15. When you spread out your hands,I will close my eyes to you;Though you pray the more,I will not listen.Your hands are full of blood!
16. Wash yourselves clean!Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes;cease doing evil;
17. learn to do good.Make justice your aim: redress the wronged,hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow.
18. Come now, let us set things right,says the Lord:Though your sins be like scarlet,they may become white as snow;Though they be red like crimson,they may become white as wool.
19. If you are willing, and obey,you shall eat the good things of the land;
20. But if you refuse and resist,you shall be eaten by the sword:for the mouth of the Lord has spoken!