5. Why do you want more beatings?Why do you keep on rebelling?The whole head is hurt,and the whole heart is sick.
6. From the sole of the foot even to the head, no spot is uninjured —wounds, welts, and festering soresnot cleansed, bandaged,or soothed with oil.
7. Your land is desolate,your cities burned with fire; foreigners devour your fieldsbefore your very eyes —a desolation demolished by foreigners.
8. Daughter Zion is abandonedlike a shelter in a vineyard,like a shack in a cucumber field,like a besieged city.
9. If the Lord of Hosts had not left us a few survivors, we would be like Sodom,we would resemble Gomorrah.