\v 1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, that he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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\v 2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken:
\q1 "I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against me.
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\v 3 The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s feeding trough,
\q1 but Israel does not know, Israel does not understand."
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\v 4 Woe! nation, sinners, a people weighed down with iniquity,
\q1 offspring of evildoers, sons that act corruptly!
\q1 They have abandoned Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel,
\q1 they have estranged themselves from him.
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\v 5 Why are you still being beaten? Why do you rebel more and more?
\q1 The whole head is sick, the whole heart is weak.
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\v 6 From the sole of the foot to the head there is no part unharmed;
\q only wounds, and bruises, and fresh open wounds;
\q1 they have not been closed, cleansed, bandaged, nor treated with oil.
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\v 7 Your country is ruined; your cities are burned;
\q1 your fields—in your presence, strangers are destroying them—
\q1 abandoned devastation, overthrown by strangers.
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\v 8 The daughter of Zion is left like a hut in a vineyard,
\q1 like a shed in a garden of cucumbers, like a besieged city.
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\v 9 If Yahweh of hosts had not left for us a small remnant,
\q1 we would have been like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah;
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\v 10 Hear the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom;
\q1 listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah:
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\v 11 "What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?" says Yahweh.
\q1 "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and
the fat of fatted beasts;
\q1 and in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats I do not delight.
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\v 12 When you come to appear before me,
\q1 who has required this of you, to trample my courts?
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\v 13 Bring no more meaningless offerings; incense is an abomination to me;
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