14. Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivalsI hate with all my being.They have become a burden to me;I am weary of bearing them.
15. When you spread out your hands in prayer,I hide my eyes from you;even when you offer many prayers,I am not listening.Your hands are full of blood!
16. Wash and make yourselves clean.Take your evil deeds out of my sight;stop doing wrong.
17. Learn to do right; seek justice.Defend the oppressed.Take up the cause of the fatherless;plead the case of the widow.
18. ‘Come now, let us settle the matter,’says the Lord.‘Though your sins are like scarlet,they shall be as white as snow;though they are red as crimson,they shall be like wool.