14. My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.
15. And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.
16. Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,
17. Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.
18. And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool,
19. if you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.
20. But if you will not, and will provoke me to wrath: the sword shall devour you because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
21. How is the faithful city, that was full of judgment, become a harlot? justice dwelt in it, but now murderers.