Isaiah 1:9-16

⁹If the Lord of hosts had not left seed to us, we had been as Sodom, and we had been like as Gomorrah.

¹⁰Ye princes of men of Sodom, hear the word of the Lord; and ye people of Gomorrah, perceive with ears the law of your God.

¹¹Whereto offer ye to me or What to me the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord. I am full; I would not the burnt sacrifices of wethers, and the inner fatness of fat beasts, and the blood of calves, and of lambs, and of bucks of goats.

¹²When ye came before my sight, who asked of your hands these things, that ye should go in my foreyards?

¹³Offer ye no more sacrifice in vain; incense is abomination to me; I shall not suffer new moon, and sabbath, and other feasts. For your companies be wicked;

¹⁴my soul hateth your calends and your solemnities; those be dis-easeful to me, I travailed with suffering.

¹⁵And when ye stretch forth your hands, I shall turn away mine eyes from you; and when ye multiply prayer, I shall not hear; for why your hands be full of blood.

¹⁶Be ye washed, be ye clean; do ye away the evil of your thoughts from mine eyes; cease ye to do waywardly,