6. You are battered from head to foot—covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds—without any soothing ointments or bandages.
7. Your country lies in ruins,and your towns are burned.Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyesand destroy everything they see.
8. Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandonedlike a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard,like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest,like a helpless city under siege.
9. If the lord of Heaven’s Armieshad not spared a few of us,we would have been wiped out like Sodom,destroyed like Gomorrah.
10. Listen to the lord, you leaders of “Sodom.”Listen to the law of our God, people of “Gomorrah.”
11. “What makes you think I want all your sacrifices?”says the lord.“I am sick of your burnt offerings of ramsand the fat of fattened cattle.I get no pleasure from the bloodof bulls and lambs and goats.