Isaiah 1:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷ Your country lies in ruins;
    your towns are in ashes.
Foreigners and strangers
take and destroy your land
    while you watch.
⁸ Enemies surround Jerusalem,
alone like a hut
    in a vineyard^[a]
    or in a cucumber field.
^9 (A) Zion would have disappeared
    like Sodom and Gomorrah,^[b]
if the Lord All-Powerful
had not let a few
    of its people survive.