2 Listen, heaven, and pay attention, earth! Jehovah has spoken: »I raised my children and helped them grow, but they have rebelled against me.3 »The bull knows its owner, and donkey knows where its master feeds it. But Israel does not know. My people do not understand!«4 Woe to the sinful nation, people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, sons who are corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah! They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away from him.5 Why do you still want to be beaten? Why do you continue to rebel? Your whole head is infected. Your whole heart is sick.6 From the bottom of your feet to the top of your head there is no healthy spot left on your body. You have only bruises, sores, and fresh wounds. They have not been cleansed, bandaged, or soothed with oil.7 Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners destroy your fields in your presence. Your fields are devastated and taken over by strangers.8 My people, the daughter of Zion is left like an empty hut in a vineyard. It is like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.9 If Jehovah of Hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.