¹²“When you come to bappear before me,

who has required of you

this trampling of my courts?

¹³Bring no more vain offerings;

incense is an abomination to me.

cNew moon and Sabbath and the dcalling of convocations—

I cannot endure einiquity and fsolemn assembly.

¹⁴Your cnew moons and your appointed feasts

my soul hates;

they have become a burden to me;

I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵When you gspread out your hands,

I will hide my eyes from you;

heven though you make many prayers,

I will not listen;

iyour hands are full of blood.

¹⁶jWash yourselves; make yourselves clean;

remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;

kcease to do evil,

¹⁷learn to do good;

lseek justice,

correct oppression;

mbring justice to the fatherless,

plead the widow's cause.

¹⁸“Come now, nlet us reason3 together, says the Lord:

though your sins are like scarlet,

they shall be as owhite as snow;

though they are red like crimson,

they shall become like wool.

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