2 Hear me, you heavens! Listen, earth!For the Lord has spoken:‘I reared children and brought them up,but they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knows its master,the donkey its owner’s manger,but Israel does not know,my people do not understand.’
4 Woe to the sinful nation,a people whose guilt is great,a brood of evildoers,children given to corruption!They have forsaken the Lord;they have spurned the Holy One of Israeland turned their backs on him.
5 Why should you be beaten any more?Why do you persist in rebellion?Your whole head is injured,your whole heart afflicted.
6 From the sole of your foot to the top of your headthere is no soundness –only wounds and bruisesand open sores,not cleansed or bandagedor soothed with oil.
7 Your country is desolate,your cities burned with fire;your fields are being stripped by foreignersright before you,laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.
8 Daughter Zion is leftlike a shelter in a vineyard,like a hut in a cucumber field,like a city under siege.