Isaiah 1:12-20

¹²When you come to appear before me, who has required this of you, to trample my courts?

¹³Bring no more meaningless offerings; incense is an abomination to me; your new moon and Sabbath assemblies—I cannot tolerate these wicked assemblies.

¹⁴I hate your new moons and your appointed feasts; they are a burden to me; I am tired of enduring them.

¹⁵So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶Wash, cleanse yourselves; remove the evil of your deeds from my sight; stop being evil;

¹⁷learn to do good; seek justice, make straight the oppression, give justice to the fatherless, defend the widow.”

¹⁸“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh; “though your sins are like scarlet, they will be white like snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.

¹⁹If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good of the land,

²⁰but if you refuse and rebel, the sword will devour you,” for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.