Isaiah 1:16
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Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,

wash

Job 11:13,14 But thou hast hardened thy heart, and hast spread thy hands to him. . . .

Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Acts 22:16 And now why tarriest thou? Rise up and be baptized and wash away thy sins, invoking his name.

2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God.

James 4:8 Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Revelation 7:14 And I said to him: My Lord, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they who are come out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and have made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

put away

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Ezekiel 18:30,31 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin. . . .

Zechariah 1:3,4 And thou shalt say to them: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye to me, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will turn to you, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Matthew 3:8 Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of penance.

Ephesians 4:22-24 To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. . . .

Titus 2:11-14 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

cease

Psalm 34:14 Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.

Psalm 37:27 Decline from evil and do good, and dwell for ever and ever.

Amos 5:15 Hate evil, and love good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be the Lord the God of hosts may have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good,

Ephesians 4:25-29 Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another. . . .

1 Peter 3:11 Let him decline from evil and do good: Let him seek after peace and pursue it:

Context
Meaningless Offerings
15And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. 16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,17Learn to do well: seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge for the fatherless, defend the widow.…
Cross References
James 4:8
Draw nigh to God: and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners, and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

Psalm 26:6
I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Psalm 34:14
Turn away from evil and do good: seek after peace and pursue it.

Psalm 51:2
Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Proverbs 4:27
My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence,

Proverbs 21:3
To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Isaiah 52:11
Depart, depart, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing: go out of the midst of her, be ye clean, you that carry the vessels of the Lord.

Isaiah 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Jeremiah 18:11
Now therefore tell the men of Juda, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying: Thus saith the Lord: Behold I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: let every man of you return from his evil way, and make ye your ways and your doings good.

Jeremiah 25:5
When he said: Return ye, every one from his evil way, and from your wicked devices, and you shall dwell in the land which the Lord hath given to you, and your fathers for ever and ever.

Jeremiah 26:3
If so be they will hearken and be converted every one from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil that I think to do unto them for the wickedness of their doings.

Jeremiah 35:15
And I have sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending and saying: Return ye every man from his wicked way, and make your ways good: and follow not strange gods, nor worship them, and you shall dwell in the land, which I gave you and your fathers: and you have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened to me.

Ezekiel 18:31
Cast away from you all your transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make to yourselves a new heart, and a new spirit: and why will you die, O house of Israel?

Jonah 3:8
And he caused it to be proclaimed and published in Ninive, from the mouth of the king and of his princes, saying: Let neither men nor beasts, oxen, nor sheep taste anything: let them not feed, nor drink water.

Zechariah 1:4
Be not as your fathers, to whom the former prophets have cried, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your wicked thoughts: but they did not give ear, neither did they hearken to me, saith the Lord.

Zechariah 7:7
Are not these the words which the Lord spoke by the hand of the former prophets, when Jerusalem as yet was inhabited, and was wealthy, both itself and the cities round about it, and there were inhabitants towards the south, and in the plain?

Zechariah 13:1
In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: for the washing of the sinner, and of the unclean woman.

Lexicon
Wash
רַחֲצוּ֙ (ra·ḥă·ṣū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7364: To wash, wash off or away, bathe

and cleanse yourselves.
הִזַּכּ֔וּ (hiz·zak·kū)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2135: To be translucent, to be innocent

Remove
הָסִ֛ירוּ (hā·sî·rū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5493: To turn aside

your evil
רֹ֥עַ (rō·a‘)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7455: Badness, evil

deeds
מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם (ma·‘al·lê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4611: A deed, practice

from
מִנֶּ֣גֶד (min·ne·ḡeḏ)
Preposition-m
Strong's Hebrew 5048: A front, part opposite, a counterpart, mate, over against, before

My sight.
עֵינָ֑י (‘ê·nāy)
Noun - cdc | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5869: An eye, a fountain

Stop
חִדְל֖וּ (ḥiḏ·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle

doing evil!
הָרֵֽעַ׃ (hā·rê·a‘)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 7489: To spoil, to make, good for, nothing, bad


Additional Translations
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; -- cease to do evil,

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil:

Wash ye, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.
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