Isaiah 1:5

⁵"Why bother even trying to do anything with you when you just keep to your bullheaded ways? You keep beating your heads against brick walls. Everything within you protests against you.

Isaiah 1 opens the book with a courtroom scene. God, through the prophet, summons heaven and earth as witnesses against His covenant people. Israel has rebelled, and their worship has become empty ritual while their hands are full of injustice. The chapter moves from indictment to a