Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
In Context
17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:13And the Lord testified to them in Israel and in Juda by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets.
Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:
Psalms 37:27Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever.
Isaiah 55:6Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.
Jeremiah 4:14Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?
Jeremiah 25:5When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:11-16
The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. ( b. c. 738.) 10 Hear the word of the Lord , ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is… Read the whole commentary →