12. When ye come to appear before Me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample khatzerai (My courts)?
13. Bring no more futile minchot; ketoret is an abomination unto Me; Rosh Chodesh (New Moon) and Shabbos, the calling of assemblies--I cannot endure aven (wickedness) and atzarah (solemn convocation).
14. Your Rosh Chodesh and your Mo'adim My Nefesh hateth; they are a burden unto Me; I am weary to bear them.
15. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many tefillah, I will not hear; your hands are full of dahmim.
16. Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17. Learn to do good; seek mishpat, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the almanah.
18. Come now, and let us reason together, saith Hashem; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of ha'aretz;
20. But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the cherev; for the mouth of Hashem hath spoken.
21. How is the Kiryah Ne'emanah (Faithful City, i.e., Yerushalayim) become a zonah (harlot)! It was full of mishpat; tzedek lodged in it; but now murderers.
22. Thy kesef is become dross, thy wine mixed with mayim: