Isaiah 1:16-19
New American Standard Bible
16 “(A)Wash yourselves, (B)make yourselves clean;
(C)Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.
(D)Stop doing evil,
17 Learn to do good;
(E)Seek justice,
Rebuke the oppressor,
(F)Obtain justice for the orphan,
Plead for the widow’s case.
Invitation to Debate
18 “Come now, and (G)let us [a]debate your case,”
Says the Lord,
“(H)Though your sins are as scarlet,
They shall become as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be like wool.
19 (I)If you are willing and obedient,
You will (J)eat the best of the land;
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:18 Or argue
Isaiah 1:16-19
King James Version
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come 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.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
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Jeremiah 36:3-7
New American Standard Bible
3 (A)Perhaps the house of Judah will listen to all the disaster which I plan to carry out against them, so that every person will (B)turn from his evil way; then I will (C)forgive their wrongdoing and their sin.”
4 Then Jeremiah called (D)Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a [a](E)scroll [b]at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him. 5 Jeremiah then commanded Baruch, saying, “I am [c](F)restricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord. 6 So you go and (G)read from the scroll, which you have (H)written [d]at my dictation, the words of the Lord [e]to the people at the Lord’s house on a day of (I)fasting. And you shall also read them [f]to all the people of Judah who come from their cities. 7 (J)Perhaps their pleading will [g]come before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way; for (K)great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”
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- Jeremiah 36:4 Lit scroll of a book
- Jeremiah 36:4 Lit from the mouth of
- Jeremiah 36:5 Lit restrained
- Jeremiah 36:6 Lit from my mouth
- Jeremiah 36:6 Lit in the ears of, and so throughout this ch
- Jeremiah 36:6 Lit in the ears of, and so throughout this ch
- Jeremiah 36:7 Lit fall
Jeremiah 36:3-7
King James Version
3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house of the Lord:
6 Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the Lord in the ears of the people in the Lord's house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
7 It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord hath pronounced against this people.
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