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15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,[a]
    I’ll hide my eyes from you.
Even though you pray repeatedly,
    I won’t listen.
Your hands are full of blood,
    your fingers drenched[b] with iniquity.”[c]

An Invitation to Reconciliation

16 “Wash yourselves,
    and[d] make yourselves clean;
remove your evil behavior
    from my presence;
        stop practicing what is evil.
17 Learn to practice what is good;
    seek justice,
alleviate oppression,[e]
    defend orphans[f] in court,
        and[g] plead the widow’s case.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:15 DSS MT lack in prayer
  2. Isaiah 1:15 DSS lack drenched
  3. Isaiah 1:15 MT 4QIsaf lack this line
  4. Isaiah 1:16 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsaf MT lack and
  5. Isaiah 1:17 Or rescue the oppressed
  6. Isaiah 1:17 Or defend the fatherless
  7. Isaiah 1:17 DSS MT lack and