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Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/1.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/1.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“Wash yourselves, purify yourselves; Remove the evil of your deeds from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Get your evil deeds out of My sight. Stop doing evil,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Wash yourselves clean! I hate your filthy deeds. Stop doing wrong <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"Wash yourselves! Become clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight. Stop doing evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Wash yourselves clean. Stop all this evil that I see you doing. Yes, stop doing evil <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Wash yourselves, and make yourselves clean; remove your evil behavior from my presence; stop practicing what is evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Wash yourselves, make yourselves pure, "" Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before My eyes, "" Cease to do evil, learn to do good.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Wash ye, cleanse yourselves: turn away evil from your doings from before mine eyes; leave off the evil;<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Wash and be purified and remove the evil of your works from before my eyes; cease from evil<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Wash you, make you clean, Put away the evil of your doings From before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-16.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=185" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm">Meaningless Offerings</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">15</span>When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7364.htm" title="7364: ra·ḥă·ṣū (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To wash, wash off or away, bathe. A primitive root; to lave.">Wash</a> <a href="/hebrew/2135.htm" title="2135: hiz·zak·kū (V-Hitpael-Imp-mp) -- To be clear, clean or pure. A primitive root; to be translucent; figuratively, to be innocent.">and cleanse yourselves.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5493.htm" title="5493: hā·sî·rū (V-Hifil-Imp-mp) -- To turn aside. Or suwr; a primitive root; to turn off.">Remove</a> <a href="/hebrew/7455.htm" title="7455: rō·a‘ (N-msc) -- Badness, evil. From ra'a'; badness, physically or morally.">your evil</a> <a href="/hebrew/4611.htm" title="4611: ma·‘al·lê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- A deed, practice. From alal; an act.">deeds</a> <a href="/hebrew/5048.htm" title="5048: min·ne·ḡeḏ (Prep-m) -- From nagad; a front, i.e. Part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually over against or before.">from</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: ‘ê·nāy (N-cdc:: 1cs) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain.">My sight.</a> <a href="/hebrew/2308.htm" title="2308: ḥiḏ·lū (V-Qal-Imp-mp) -- To cease. A primitive root; properly, to be flabby, i.e. desist; be lacking or idle.">Stop</a> <a href="/hebrew/7489.htm" title="7489: hā·rê·a‘ (V-Hifil-Inf) -- A primitive root; properly, to spoil; figuratively, to make good for nothing, i.e. Bad.">doing evil!</a> </span><span class="reftext">17</span>Learn to do right; seek justice and correct the oppressor. Defend the fatherless and plead the case of the widow.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/4-8.htm">James 4:8</a></span><br />Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/51-7.htm">Psalm 51:7</a></span><br />Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/18-31.htm">Ezekiel 18:31</a></span><br />Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-14.htm">Jeremiah 4:14</a></span><br />Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/7-1.htm">2 Corinthians 7:1</a></span><br />Therefore, beloved, since we have these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that defiles body and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-26.htm">Matthew 23:26</a></span><br />Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/1-9.htm">1 John 1:9</a></span><br />If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/34-14.htm">Psalm 34:14</a></span><br />Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/1-22.htm">1 Peter 1:22</a></span><br />Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/1-4.htm">Zechariah 1:4</a></span><br />Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/22-16.htm">Acts 22:16</a></span><br />And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and wash your sins away, calling on His name.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/4-22.htm">Ephesians 4:22-24</a></span><br />to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; / to be renewed in the spirit of your minds; / and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/7-3.htm">Jeremiah 7:3</a></span><br />Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/2-8.htm">1 Timothy 2:8</a></span><br />Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/14-1.htm">Hosea 14:1</a></span><br />Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;</p><p class="hdg">wash</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/11-13.htm">Job 11:13,14</a></b></br> If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/26-6.htm">Psalm 26:6</a></b></br> I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/4-14.htm">Jeremiah 4:14</a></b></br> O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?</p><p class="hdg">put away</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/55-6.htm">Isaiah 55:6,7</a></b></br> Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/18-30.htm">Ezekiel 18:30,31</a></b></br> Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn <i>yourselves</i> from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/zechariah/1-3.htm">Zechariah 1:3,4</a></b></br> Therefore say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts… </p><p class="hdg">cease</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/34-14.htm">Psalm 34:14</a></b></br> Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/37-27.htm">Psalm 37:27</a></b></br> Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/5-15.htm">Amos 5:15</a></b></br> Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ecclesiastes/12-3.htm">Cease</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-2.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-1.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-11.htm">Doings</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-13.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-13.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/songs/8-10.htm">Good</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-25.htm">Learn</a> <a href="/songs/6-10.htm">Pure</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-10.htm">Remove</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-9.htm">Sight</a> <a href="/proverbs/19-2.htm">Sinning</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-13.htm">Stop</a> <a href="/songs/6-5.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/songs/8-7.htm">Wash</a> <a href="/songs/5-12.htm">Washed</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-2.htm">Wrong</a> <a href="/psalms/105-3.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/2-22.htm">Cease</a> <a href="/isaiah/4-4.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-8.htm">Deeds</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-8.htm">Doings</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-24.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-11.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-17.htm">Good</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-17.htm">Learn</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-12.htm">Pure</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm">Remove</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-21.htm">Sight</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-4.htm">Sinning</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-22.htm">Stop</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/isaiah/4-4.htm">Wash</a> <a href="/isaiah/4-4.htm">Washed</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-15.htm">Wrong</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-10.htm">Yourselves</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-1.htm">Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-5.htm">He laments her judgments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-10.htm">He upbraids their whole service</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Bewailing their wickedness, he denounces God's judgments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">25. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm">He promises grace</a></span><br><span class="reftext">28. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-28.htm">And threatens destruction to the wicked</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In the ancient Near Eastern context, washing was a common ritual for purification, often required before entering sacred spaces (<a href="/exodus/30-18.htm">Exodus 30:18-21</a>). The call to wash and cleanse is not merely about physical cleanliness but signifies a deeper moral and spiritual renewal. This concept is echoed in the New Testament, where believers are urged to cleanse themselves from all defilement (<a href="/2_corinthians/7.htm">2 Corinthians 7:1</a>). The imagery of washing is also a type of the cleansing work of Jesus Christ, who purifies believers through His sacrifice (<a href="/ephesians/5-26.htm">Ephesians 5:26</a>).<p><b>Remove your evil deeds from My sight.</b><br>This command emphasizes the need for genuine repentance, which involves not only feeling remorse but actively turning away from sinful actions. The phrase "from My sight" indicates that God is omniscient and aware of all actions, underscoring the futility of hidden sins (<a href="/psalms/139.htm">Psalm 139:1-12</a>). The historical context of Isaiah's ministry was a time of rampant idolatry and social injustice in Judah, and this call to remove evil deeds was a direct challenge to the people's wayward practices. The removal of evil deeds is a precursor to receiving God's forgiveness and favor, as seen in the promise of cleansing in <a href="/isaiah/1-18.htm">Isaiah 1:18</a>.<p><b>Stop doing evil!</b><br>This imperative is a straightforward call to cease sinful behavior. It reflects the covenantal relationship between God and His people, where obedience is a key component (<a href="/deuteronomy/28.htm">Deuteronomy 28:1-2</a>). The cultural context of Isaiah's audience involved widespread corruption and moral decay, and this command was a call to return to the ethical standards set by the Law. The cessation of evil is a theme throughout Scripture, with New Testament parallels urging believers to put off the old self and its practices (<a href="/colossians/3-9.htm">Colossians 3:9-10</a>). This phrase also points to the transformative power of God's grace, enabling believers to overcome sin through the Holy Spirit (<a href="/romans/8-13.htm">Romans 8:13</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book bearing his name. He prophesied to the Kingdom of Judah during a time of moral and spiritual decline.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, which was often rebuked by prophets like Isaiah for its idolatry and injustice.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/g/god's_call_to_repentance.htm">God's Call to Repentance</a></b><br>This verse is part of a larger call from God through Isaiah for the people of Judah to repent from their sinful ways and return to righteousness.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/c/call_to_personal_holiness.htm">Call to Personal Holiness</a></b><br>God desires not just ritual purity but genuine moral and spiritual cleanliness. This involves a conscious effort to turn away from sin and live a life that honors Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_as_a_continuous_process.htm">Repentance as a Continuous Process</a></b><br>Repentance is not a one-time event but a continual turning away from sin. Believers are called to regularly examine their lives and remove anything displeasing to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/v/visible_change_in_behavior.htm">Visible Change in Behavior</a></b><br>True repentance results in a change of actions. It's not enough to feel remorse; we must actively stop doing evil and pursue righteousness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_displeasure_with_sin.htm">God's Displeasure with Sin</a></b><br>Sin is not just a personal failing but an affront to God. Understanding the gravity of sin should motivate us to seek His forgiveness and strive for holiness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_community_in_accountability.htm">The Role of Community in Accountability</a></b><br>Engaging with a community of believers can provide support and accountability in the journey of repentance and spiritual growth.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_was_the_cause_of_jeremiah's_death.htm">Is baptism mentioned in the Old Testament?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_being_clean_akin_to_being_godly.htm">Is being clean akin to being godly?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/who_were_the_old_testament_prophets.htm">Who were the Old Testament prophets in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_emphasize_'true_fast'_over_rituals.htm">Isaiah 58:5 – Why emphasize a “true fast” if God mandated so many ritual practices in earlier laws, suggesting a potential conflict between ceremony and genuine devotion? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(16) <span class= "bld">Wash you, make you clean </span>. . .--The words were probably as an echo of <a href="/psalms/51-7.htm" title="Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.">Psalm 51:7</a>. Both psalmist and prophet had entered into the inner meaning of the outward ablutions of ritual.<p><span class= "bld">Cease to do evil; (17) learn to do well.</span>--Such words the prophet might have heard in his youth from Amos (<a href="/context/amos/5-14.htm" title="Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken.">Amos 5:14-15</a>). What had then been spoken to the princes of the northern kingdom was now repeated to those of Judah.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 16-20.</span> - THE REQUIREMENT OF GOD - AMENDMENT OF LIFE. God, having put aside the worthless plea of outward religiousness made by his people, goes on to declare, by the mouth of his prophet, what he requires. First, in general terms (ver. 16), and then with distinct specification (ver. 17), he calls on them to amend their ways, both negatively ("cease to do evil") and positively ("learn to do well"). If they will really amend, then he assures them of forgiveness and favor; if they refuse and continue their rebellion, the sword will devour them. <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 16.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Wash you, make you clean</span>. The analogy of sin to defilement, and of washing to cleansing from sin, has been felt among men universally wherever there has been any sense of sin. Outward purification by water has been constantly made use of as typical of the recovery of inward purity. Hence the numerous washings of the Levitical Law (<a href="/exodus/29-4.htm">Exodus 29:4</a>; <a href="/leviticus/1-9.htm">Leviticus 1:9, 13</a>; <a href="/numbers/19-7.htm">Numbers 19:7, 8, 19</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/21-6.htm">Deuteronomy 21:6</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/23-11.htm">Deuteronomy 23:11</a>; etc.); hence the ablutions of the priests in Egypt (Herod., 2:37); hence the appropriateness of the rite of baptism; hence the symbolical washing of hands to free from complicity in blood-guiltiness (<a href="/matthew/27-24.htm">Matthew 27:24</a>). "Wash you, make you clean, "could not be misunderstood by the Israelites; they would know that it was a requirement to "wash their hands in innocency" (<a href="/psalms/26-6.htm">Psalm 26:6</a>; <a href="/psalms/73-13.htm">Psalm 73:13</a>), even apart from what follows. <span class="cmt_word">Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes.</span> Not "hide it, "for that was impossible; but remove it altogether - in other words, "cease from it." "Cast off all the works of darkness;" get rid of evil, to begin with. So much is negative. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/1-16.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Wash</span><br /><span class="heb">רַחֲצוּ֙</span> <span class="translit">(ra·ḥă·ṣū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7364.htm">Strong's 7364: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wash, wash off or away, bathe</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and cleanse yourselves.</span><br /><span class="heb">הִזַּכּ֔וּ</span> <span class="translit">(hiz·zak·kū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2135.htm">Strong's 2135: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be translucent, to be innocent</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Remove</span><br /><span class="heb">הָסִ֛ירוּ</span> <span class="translit">(hā·sî·rū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5493.htm">Strong's 5493: </a> </span><span class="str2">To turn aside</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your evil</span><br /><span class="heb">רֹ֥עַ</span> <span class="translit">(rō·a‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7455.htm">Strong's 7455: </a> </span><span class="str2">Badness, evil</span><br /><br /><span class="word">deeds</span><br /><span class="heb">מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(ma·‘al·lê·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4611.htm">Strong's 4611: </a> </span><span class="str2">A deed, practice</span><br /><br /><span class="word">from</span><br /><span class="heb">מִנֶּ֣גֶד</span> <span class="translit">(min·ne·ḡeḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5048.htm">Strong's 5048: </a> </span><span class="str2">A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before</span><br /><br /><span class="word">My sight.</span><br /><span class="heb">עֵינָ֑י</span> <span class="translit">(‘ê·nāy)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - cdc | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5869.htm">Strong's 5869: </a> </span><span class="str2">An eye, a fountain</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Stop</span><br /><span class="heb">חִדְל֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(ḥiḏ·lū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2308.htm">Strong's 2308: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle</span><br /><br /><span class="word">doing evil!</span><br /><span class="heb">הָרֵֽעַ׃</span> <span class="translit">(hā·rê·a‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7489.htm">Strong's 7489: </a> </span><span class="str2">To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/1-16.htm">Isaiah 1:16 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 1:16 Wash yourselves make yourself clean (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 1:15"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1:15" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/1-17.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 1:17"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1:17" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>