Isaiah 1:16
Wash yourselves, make yourselves pure, || Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before My eyes, || Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
Literal Standard Version
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
17Seek judgment, make the oppressed blessed, || Judge the fatherless, strive [for] the widow.
Cross References
2 Kings 17:13And YHWH testifies against Israel, and against Judah, by the hand of every prophet, and every seer, saying, “Turn back from your evil ways, and keep My commands, My statutes, according to all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by the hand of My servants the prophets”;
Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence, || And I go around Your altar, O YHWH.
Psalms 37:27Turn aside from evil, and do good, and dwell for all time.
Isaiah 55:6Seek YHWH while He may be found, || Call Him while He is near,
Jeremiah 4:14Wash evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, || That you may be saved, || Until when do you lodge in your heart || Thoughts of your strength?
Jeremiah 25:5Please turn back, each from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell on the ground that YHWH has given to you and to your fathers from age to age,
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 →