23:001:004 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
           evildoers, children that are corrupters:  they have forsaken
           the lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto
           anger, they are gone away backward.

23:001:005 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
           more:  the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

23:001:006 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
           soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying
           sores:  they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither
           mollified with ointment.

23:001:007 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: 
           your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is
           desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

23:001:008 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard,
           as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

23:001:009 Except the lord of hosts had left unto us a very small
           remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been
           like unto Gomorrah.

23:001:010 Hear the word of the lord, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto
           the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

23:001:011 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?
           saith the lord:  I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and
           the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of
           bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

23:001:012 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at
           your hand, to tread my courts?

23:001:013 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto
           me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I
           cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

23:001:014 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth:  they
           are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

23:001:015 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
           from you:  yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: 
           your hands are full of blood.

23:001:016 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
           from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

23:001:017 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge
           the fatherless, plead for the widow.

23:001:018 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the lord:  though
           your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow;
           though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

23:001:019 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the
           land: