Isaiah 1:16

Meaningless Offerings · Isaiah 1:10–20
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Translations

Modern
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
Traditional
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Literal
Wash, cleanse yourselves; turn aside the evil of your deeds from before My eyes. Cease to do evil.
Latin
Lavamini, mundi estote; auferte malum cogitationum vestrarum ab oculis meis: quiescite agere perverse,

Original

Hebrew
English
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!

Notes

Wash and cleanse yourselves: The people were made unclean by their sin and impure sacrifices. To be clean in God's eyes, they needed to change their behavior, remove their sins, and abandon their evil ways (see also Isaiah 1:18).

Events

Glossary

Bathe, Bathing Cleanness and Uncleanness, Regulations Concerning Courts and Trials Isaiah (Person) Isaiah, Book of John the Baptist Wrath of God

Topics

Ablution: Figurative Being Clean Church: Backslidden Cleanliness: Figurative National Sins: should be Turned From Ordinance: Insufficiency of, for Salvation Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Regeneration: General Scriptures Concerning Rehabilitation Repentance: should be Evidenced by Fruits Reward: A Motive to Faithfulness Washing of Regeneration