Isaiah 1:7-11

Your country has been devastated, your towns burned down, your fields stripped bare by foreigners right in front of you, as they turn it all into a wasteland.

The daughter of Zion is left like a shack in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, like a city under attack.

If the Lord Almighty hadn't let a few of us survive, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Listen to what the Lord has to say, you rulers of Sodom! Pay attention to the instructions of our God, you people of Gomorrah!

What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!