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Isaiah 1:16-18 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 1 · verses 16–18
16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; 17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. 18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.Isaiah 1:16-18 · King James Version
Isaiah 1:16-18 in context
14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: 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 ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Commentary
Cross references
- 1 Peter 3:11
- Isaiah 55:6-7
- 1 Peter 2:1
- 2 Corinthians 7:1
- James 4:8
- Ezekiel 18:30-31
- Titus 2:11-14
- Micah 6:8
- Jeremiah 22:3
- Psalms 82:3-4
- Proverbs 31:9
- Isaiah 1:23
Key words (Strong's)
- fatherlessyâthôwma bereaved personH3490 →
- oppressedchâmôwtsproperly, violentH2541 →
- judgmentmishpâṭproperly, a verdict pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree divine…H4941 →
- togetheryâkachto be rightH3198 →
- relieveʼâsharto be straightH833 →
- scarletshânîycrimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with itH8144 →
- crimsontôwlâʻthe crimson-grub, but used only of the colorfrom it, and cloths dyed therewithH8438 →
- doingsmaʻălâlan actH4611 →
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Though God had rejected their services as insufficient to atone for their sins while they persisted in them, yet he does not reject them as in a hopeless condition, but here calls upon them to forsake their sins, which hindered the acceptance of their services, and then all would be well.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-20