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From the sole of your foot to your head
    there is not a single healthy area
nothing but bruises and welts and open sores
    that have not been drained or bandaged
    or soothed with ointment.
Your country is a desolate waste,
    and fire has destroyed your cities.
Before your very eyes
    foreigners have devoured your land
and left it as desolate
    as Sodom after it had been overthrown.
Daughter Zion[a] is left
    like a shack in a vineyard,
like a shed in a field of cucumbers,
    like a besieged city.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:8 Daughter Zion: a personification of Jerusalem. Shack: huts for keeping the grapes were built among the vines during the grape harvest.