Isaiah 1:17-28

¹⁷Learn to do well; seek for justice, relieve the oppressed, do justice to the fatherless, plead for the widow.

¹⁸Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins should be as scarlet, they shall become white as the snow; though they should be red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

¹⁹If ye be willing and obey, the best of the land shall ye eat;

²⁰But if ye refuse and rebel, by the sword shall ye be devoured; for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

²¹How is she become a harlot, the faithful town! she, that was full of justice; righteousness lodged therein; but now murderers.

²²Thy silver is become dross, thy wine is drugged with water;

²³Thy princes are rebels, and companions of thieves; every one loveth brides, and runneth after rewards; to the fatherless they will not do justice, and the cause of the widow doth not come unto them.

²⁴Therefore saith the Lord, the Eternal of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will take satisfaction on my adversaries, and be avenged on my enemies.

²⁵And I will turn my hand against thee, and purge away as with lye thy dross, and remove all thy tin:

²⁶And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning; after that shalt thou be called, The city of righteousness, the town that is faithful.

²⁷Zion shall be redeemed through justice, and her converts through righteousness.

²⁸But destruction shall come over transgressors and sinners together, and those that forsake the Lord shall perish.