Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge who set up the wood of their sculptured image, and pray to a god that cannot save.
Listen to me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been borne by me from the belly, who have been carried from the womb:
Hear this, O house of Jacob, who are called by the name of Israel, and have come forth out of the waters of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; and we all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Why do you show me iniquity, and cause me to behold wrongdoing? for destruction and violence are before me: and there are those who raise up strife and contention.