2 Give heed, O heavens, and hear, O earth! For Jehovah has spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, but they have rebelled against Me.3 The ox knows his owner, and the ass his masters manger, but Israel does not know; My people have not discerned.4 Woe, sinful nation, a people heavy with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who corrupt! They have forsaken Jehovah; they have scorned the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged backward.5 Why will you be stricken any more? Will you rebel more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is faint.6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it; only wounds and bruises and fresh stripes; they have not been closed nor bound up, nor has it been softened with oil.7 Your land is a desolation; your cities burned with fire. Strangers devour your land before you; and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.9 Except Jehovah of Hosts had left us a small remnant, we would be as Sodom; we would be as Gomorrah.