2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!For the Lord has spoken:“I have nourished and brought up children,And they have rebelled against Me;
3 The ox knows its ownerAnd the donkey its master’s crib;But Israel does not know,My people do not consider.”
4 Alas, sinful nation,A people laden with iniquity,A brood of evildoers,Children who are corrupters!They have forsaken the Lord,They have provoked to angerThe Holy One of Israel,They have turned away backward.
5 Why should you be stricken again?You will revolt more and more.The whole head is sick,And the whole heart faints.
6 From the sole of the foot even to the head,There is no soundness in it,But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;They have not been closed or bound up,Or soothed with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate,Your cities are burned with fire;Strangers devour your land in your presence;And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard,As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,As a besieged city.