Isaiah 1:16-19

New King James Version

¹⁶“Wash^(A) yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
^(B)Cease to do evil,
¹⁷Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Rebuke ^[a]the oppressor;
^[b]Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.

¹⁸“Come now, and let us ^(C)reason together,”
Says the Lord,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
^(D)They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
¹⁹If you are willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;

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Footnotes

Isaiah 1:17 Some ancient vss. the oppressed
Isaiah 1:17 Vindicate

Jeremiah 36:3-7

New King James Version

³It ^(A)may be that the house of Judah will hear all the adversities which I purpose to bring upon them, that everyone may ^(B)turn from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

⁴Then Jeremiah ^(C)called Baruch the son of Neriah; and ^(D)Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, ^[a]at the instruction of Jeremiah, all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him. ⁵And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am confined, I cannot go into the house of the Lord. ⁶You go, therefore, and read from the scroll which you have written ^[b]at my instruction, the words of the Lord, in the hearing of the people in the Lord’s house on ^(E)the day of fasting. And you shall also read them in the hearing of all Judah who come from their cities. ⁷It may be that they will present their supplication before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way. For great is the anger and the fury that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”