Oh sinful nation,
people weighed down with iniquity,(A)
brood of evildoers,(B)
depraved children![a]
They have abandoned(C) the Lord;
they have despised(D) the Holy One of Israel;(E)
they have turned their backs on Him.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:4 Or sons

I will send him against a godless nation;
I will command him to go
against a people destined for My rage,
to take spoils, to plunder,
and to trample them down like clay(A) in the streets.

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20 You will not join them in burial,
because you destroyed your land
and slaughtered your own people.
The offspring of evildoers
will never be remembered.(A)

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But He also is wise and brings disaster.(A)
He does not go back on what He says;(B)
He will rise up against the house of wicked men
and against the allies of evildoers.

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For a fool speaks foolishness
and his mind plots iniquity.
He lives in a godless way
and speaks falsely about the Lord.
He leaves the hungry empty
and deprives the thirsty of drink.(A)

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