16. “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Stop doing evil!
17. “Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18. “Come now, and let us reason together,” says יהוה. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19. “If you submit and obey, you shall eat the good of the land;