Judah’s Rebellion

(2 Chronicles 28:5–15)

[This is] the vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem that Isaiah son of Amoz saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

2 

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth,

for the LORD has spoken:

“I have raised children and brought them up,

but they have rebelled against Me.

3 

The ox knows its owner,

and the donkey its master’s manger,

but Israel does not know;

My people do not understand.”

4 

Alas, O sinful nation,

a people laden with iniquity,

a brood of evildoers,

children who act corruptly!

They have forsaken the LORD;

they have despised the Holy One of Israel

[and] turned their backs on Him.

5 

Why do you want more beatings?

Why do you keep rebelling?

Your head has a massive wound,

and your whole heart is afflicted.

6 

From the sole of your foot to the top of your head,

[there is] no soundness—

only wounds and welts and festering sores

neither cleansed nor bandaged nor soothed with oil.

7 

Your land is desolate;

your cities [are] burned with fire.

Foreigners devour your fields before you —

a desolation demolished by strangers.

8 

And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned

like a shelter in a vineyard,

like a shack in a cucumber field,

like a city besieged.

9 

Unless the LORD of Hosts

had left us a few survivors,[fn]

we would have become like Sodom,

we would have resembled Gomorrah.[fn]

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