4 Oh sinful nation,people weighed down with iniquity, brood of evildoers, depraved children! They have abandoned the Lord;they have despised the Holy One of Israel; they have turned their backs on Him.
5 Why do you want more beatings?Why do you keep on rebelling?The whole head is hurt,and the whole heart is sick.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, no spot is uninjured —wounds, welts, and festering soresnot cleansed, bandaged,or soothed with oil.
7 Your land is desolate,your cities burned with fire; foreigners devour your fieldsbefore your very eyes —a desolation demolished by foreigners.
8 Daughter Zion is abandonedlike a shelter in a vineyard,like a shack in a cucumber field,like a besieged city.
9 If the Lord of Hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom,we would resemble Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom!Listen to the instruction of our God,you people of Gomorrah!