15 When you spread out your hands in prayer,(A)
I will refuse to look at you;
even if you offer countless prayers,
I will not listen.(B)
Your hands are covered with blood.(C)

Purification of Jerusalem

16 “Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.(D)
Remove your evil deeds from my sight.
Stop doing evil.(E)
17 Learn to do what is good.
Pursue justice.(F)
Correct the oppressor.[a]
Defend the rights of the fatherless.
Plead the widow’s cause.

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  1. 1:17 Or Aid the oppressed

15 When you spread out your hands(A) in prayer,
    I hide(B) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.(C)

Your hands(D) are full of blood!(E)

16 Wash(F) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;(G)
    stop doing wrong.(H)
17 Learn to do right;(I) seek justice.(J)
    Defend the oppressed.[a](K)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;(L)
    plead the case of the widow.(M)

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  1. Isaiah 1:17 Or justice. / Correct the oppressor