Isaiah 1:10-21

¹⁰Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear to the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrha.

¹¹To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

¹²When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

¹³Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

¹⁴My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,

¹⁷Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.

¹⁸And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

¹⁹If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

²⁰But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

²¹How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.