Isaiah 1:16
Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:13yet the LORD forewarned Israel, and Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and of every seer, saying: 'Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets';
Psalms 26:6I will wash my hands in innocency; so will I compass Thine altar, O LORD,
Psalms 37:27Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.
Isaiah 55:6Seek ye the LORD while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near;
Jeremiah 4:14O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy baleful thoughts lodge within thee?
Jeremiah 25:5saying: 'Return ye now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to 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 →