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;
20. but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword,” for the mouth of יהוה has spoken.
21. How the steadfast city has become a whore! I have filled it with right-ruling; righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers.
22. Your silver has become dross, your wine is mixed with water.