Isaiah 1:5-9

5Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick.

6You are battered from head to foot— covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds— without any soothing ointments or bandages.

7Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see.

8Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege.

9If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out like Sodom, destroyed like Gomorrah.