16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean;

remove the evil of your doings

from before my eyes;

cease to do evil,

17 learn to do good;

seek justice,

correct oppression;

defend the fatherless,

plead for the widow.

18 “Come now, let us reason together,

says the Lord:

though your sins are like scarlet,

they shall be as white as snow;

though they are red like crimson,

they shall become like wool.

19 If you are willing and obedient,

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 the Lord has spoken.”