5 Why do you invite further beatings?Why continue to rebel?Everyone’s head throbs,and everyone’s heart fails.
6 From head to toe, none are well—only bruises, cuts, and raw wounds,not treated, not bandaged,not soothed with oil.
7 Your country is deserted,your cities burned with fire;your land—strangers are devouring it in plain sight.It’s a wasteland, as when foreigners raid.
8 Daughter Zion is left like a small shelter in a vineyard,like a hut in a cucumber field,like a city besieged.
9 If the Lord of heavenly forces had not spared a few of us,we would be like Sodom; we would resemble Gomorrah.
10 Hear the Lord’s word, you leaders of Sodom.Listen to our God’s teaching,people of Gomorrah!
11 What should I think about all your sacrifices?says the Lord.I’m fed up with entirely burned offerings of ramsand the fat of well-fed beasts.I don’t want the blood of bulls, lambs, and goats.