15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,(A)
I will refuse to look at you;
even if you offer countless prayers,
I will not listen.(B)
Your hands are covered with blood.(C)

Purification of Jerusalem

16 “Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.(D)
Remove your evil deeds from my sight.
Stop doing evil.(E)
17 Learn to do what is good.
Pursue justice.(F)
Correct the oppressor.[a]
Defend the rights of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:17 Or Aid the oppressed

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