Esias 1:15-23

¹⁵When you° stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and though you° make many supplications, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before my eyes; cease from your iniquities;

¹⁷learn to do well; diligently seek judgement, deliver him that is suffering wrong, plead for the orphan, and obtain justice for the widow.

¹⁸And come, let us reason together, says the Lord: and though your sins be as purple, I will make them white as snow; and though they be as scarlet, I will make them white as wool.

¹⁹And if you° be willing, and listen to me, you° shall eat the good of the land:

²⁰but if you° be not willing, nor listen to me, a sword shall devour you: for the mouth of the Lord has spoken this.

²¹How has the faithful city Sion, once full of judgement, become a harlot! wherein righteousness lodged, but now murderers.

²²Your silver is worthless, your wine merchants mix the wine with water.

²³Your princes are rebellious, companions of thieves, loving bribes, seeking after rewards; not pleading for orphans, and not heeding the cause of widows.