15 When you reach out your hands,I will hide My eyes from you;even when you make many prayers,I will not hear.Your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;put away the evil from your deeds, from before My eyes.Cease to do evil,
17 learn to do good; seek justice,relieve the oppressed;judge the fatherless,plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together,says the Lord.Though your sins be as scarlet,they shall be as white as snow;though they be red like crimson,they shall be as wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient,you shall eat the good of the land;
20 but if you refuse and rebel,you shall be devoured with the sword;for the mouth of the Lord has spokenit.
21 How the faithful cityhas become a prostitute!She was full of justice;righteousness lodged in her,but now murderers.