15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,I hide my eyes from you;even when you offer many prayers,I am not listening.Your hands are full of blood!
16 Wash and make yourselves clean.Take your evil deeds out of my sight;stop doing wrong.
17 Learn to do right; seek justice.Defend the oppressed.Take up the cause of the fatherless;plead the case of the widow.
18 ‘Come now, let us settle the matter,’says the Lord.‘Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow;though they are red as crimson,they shall be like wool.
19 If you are willing and obedient,you will eat the good things of the land;
20 but if you resist and rebel,you will be devoured by the sword.’For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
21 See how the faithful cityhas become a prostitute!She once was full of justice;righteousness used to dwell in her –but now murderers!