Isaiah / Yesha'yahu [Salvation of Yah] 1:17-21

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.