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(A)Unless Yahweh of hosts
Had left us a few (B)survivors,
We would be like (C)Sodom,
We would be like Gomorrah.

10 Hear (D)the word of Yahweh,
You rulers of (E)Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah.
11 (F)What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?”
Says Yahweh.
“I [a]have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle;
And in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats [b]I take no pleasure.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:11 Or am sated with
  2. Isaiah 1:11 Or I do not desire, cf. Ps 40:6

Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

10 Hear the word of the Lord,(C)
    you rulers of Sodom;(D)
listen to the instruction(E) of our God,
    you people of Gomorrah!(F)
11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—
    what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
    of rams and the fat of fattened animals;(G)
I have no pleasure(H)
    in the blood of bulls(I) and lambs and goats.(J)

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