Isaiah / Yesha'yahu [Salvation of Yah] 1:16-24

¹⁶Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

¹⁷Learn to do well. Seek mishpat ·justice·. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the orphan. Plead for the widow.”

¹⁸“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Adonai : “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

¹⁹If you are willing and sh'ma ·hearing obedient·, you shall eat the good of the land;

²⁰but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Adonai has spoken it.”

²¹How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of mishpat ·justice·; righteousness lodged in her, but now murderers.

²²Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.

²³Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone 'ahav ·affectionately loves· bribes, and follows after rewards. They don’t judge the orphan, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

²⁴Therefore the Lord, Adonai Tzva'ot Yahweh Commander of heaven’s armies, the Mighty One of Israel God prevails, says: “Ah, I will get relief from my adversaries, and avenge myself on my enemies;