5. Why should you be beaten any more? You continue in apostasy! All the head is sick, and all the heart faints.
6. From the sole of the foot, to the head, there is no soundness in it – wounds and bruises and open sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment.
7. Your land is laid waste, your cities are burned with fire, strangers devour your land in your presence. And it is laid waste, as overthrown by strangers.
8. And the daughter of Tsiyon is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9. Unless יהוה of hosts had left to us a small remnant, we would have become like Seḏom, we would have been made like Amorah.
10. Hear the word of יהוה, you rulers of Seḏom; give ear to the Torah of our Elohim, you people of Amorah!
11. “Of what use to Me are your many slaughterings?” declares יהוה. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.
12. “When you come to appear before Me, who has required this from your hand, to trample My courtyards?
13. “Stop bringing futile offerings, incense, it is an abomination to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, the calling of meetings – I am unable to bear unrighteousness and assembly.
14. “My being hates your New Moons and your appointed times, they are a trouble to Me, I am weary of bearing them.
15. “And when you spread out your hands, I hide My eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I do not hear. Your hands have become filled with blood.
16. “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil!
17. “Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18. “Come now, and let us reason together,” says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19. “If you submit and obey, you shall eat the good of the land;