4 Ah! Sinful nation, people laden with wickedness,evil offspring, corrupt children!They have forsaken the Lord,spurned the Holy One of Israel,apostatized,
5 Why would you yet be struck,that you continue to rebel?The whole head is sick,the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot to the headthere is no sound spot in it;Just bruise and welt and oozing wound,not drained, or bandaged,or eased with salve.
7 Your country is waste,your cities burnt with fire;Your land—before your eyesstrangers devour it,a waste, like the devastation of Sodom.
8 And daughter Zion is leftlike a hut in a vineyard,Like a shed in a melon patch,like a city blockaded.
9 If the Lord of hosts had notleft us a small remnant,We would have become as Sodom,would have resembled Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the Lord,princes of Sodom!Listen to the instruction of our God,people of Gomorrah!