God's Indictment Against Rebellious Israel

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Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for the LORD has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

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The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know, my people don’t consider.”

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Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the LORD. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.

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Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

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From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it: wounds, welts, and open sores. They haven’t been closed, neither bandaged, neither soothed with oil.

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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.

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The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

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Unless the LORD of Hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom; we would have been like Gomorrah.

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