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THE MESSAGE
Isaiah 1:16
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“Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves.Remove your evil deeds from my sight.Stop doing evil.
Wash yourselves, make yourself 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 yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
"Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil,
Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Stop doing the evil things I see you do. Stop doing wrong.
"Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Get your evil deeds out of My sight. Stop doing evil,
Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil.
Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe euill.
"Wash yourselves, purify yourselves;Remove the evil of your deeds from before My eyes.Cease to do evil,
Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!
Wash yourselves clean! I am disgusted with your filthy deeds. Stop doing wrong
"Wash yourselves clean! Get your evil deeds out of my sight! Stop doing evil,
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes;—cease to do evil,
"Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Stop doing the evil things I see you do. Stop doing wrong.
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
Wash yourselves clean. Stop all this evil that I see you doing. Yes, stop doing evil
Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!
Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My sight; stop doing evil.
Wash you, make you clene, put awaye yor euell thoughtes out of my sight, cease from doinge of euell and violence.
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;
Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes, cease to do evil;
Wash yee, make you cleane, put away the euill of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to doe euill,
Washe you, make you cleane, put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght: ceasse from doyng of euyll,
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:
Be ye waischun, be ye clene; do ye awei the yuel of youre thouytis fro myn iyen; ceesse ye to do weiwardli, lerne ye to do wel.
Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my 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! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!
"Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,
Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways.
"Wash yourselves. Make yourselves clean. Take your sinful actions from My eyes. Stop doing sinful things.
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
Wash you make you clean, Put away the wickedness of your doings from before mine eyes, - Cease to do evil.
Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes, cease to do perversely,
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove 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.
"Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Wash: Job 11:13, Job 11:14, Psalms 26:6, Jeremiah 4:14, Acts 22:16, 2 Corinthians 7:1, James 4:8, Revelation 7:14
put away: Isaiah 55:6, Isaiah 55:7, Ezekiel 18:30, Ezekiel 18:31, Zechariah 1:3, Zechariah 1:4, Matthew 3:8, Ephesians 4:22-24, Titus 2:11-14, 1 Peter 2:1
cease: Psalms 34:14, Psalms 37:27, Amos 5:15, Romans 12:9, Ephesians 4:25-29, 1 Peter 3:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - clean Leviticus 8:6 - washed Leviticus 11:40 - eateth Leviticus 15:5 - General Leviticus 15:6 - General Leviticus 15:8 - General Leviticus 26:23 - General Deuteronomy 5:10 - showing 1 Kings 8:35 - and turn 2 Kings 5:13 - Wash 2 Kings 17:13 - Turn ye Ezra 10:11 - do his Job 1:8 - escheweth Job 9:30 - General Job 17:9 - clean Job 28:28 - to depart Job 36:10 - commandeth Psalms 24:4 - He that Psalms 37:3 - Trust Psalms 145:18 - call upon Proverbs 4:27 - remove Proverbs 28:9 - turneth Proverbs 30:12 - not Isaiah 56:1 - Keep Isaiah 65:12 - did evil Jeremiah 7:3 - Amend Jeremiah 18:8 - that nation Jeremiah 18:11 - return Jeremiah 26:3 - so Jeremiah 33:5 - I have hid Jeremiah 35:15 - Return Ezekiel 18:21 - if the Hosea 12:6 - keep Amos 5:14 - Seek Jonah 3:8 - let Micah 6:8 - to do Zechariah 7:7 - cried Zechariah 7:10 - oppress Zechariah 13:1 - a fountain Matthew 21:29 - he repented Mark 7:4 - except Luke 3:8 - fruits Luke 3:13 - Exact John 8:11 - go John 13:5 - to wash Acts 3:19 - be Acts 16:30 - brought 1 Corinthians 6:11 - but ye are washed James 1:27 - To visit James 4:3 - and 1 Peter 4:1 - ceased 2 Peter 2:14 - that cannot 3 John 1:11 - follow
Cross-References
God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good.
God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was.
I look up at your macro-skies, dark and enormous, your handmade sky-jewelry, Moon and stars mounted in their settings. Then I look at my micro-self and wonder, Why do you bother with us? Why take a second look our way?
That's how God's Word vaults across the skies from sunrise to sunset, Melting ice, scorching deserts, warming hearts to faith.
"Following those hard times, Sun will fade out, moon cloud over, Stars fall out of the sky, cosmic powers tremble.
From noon to three, the whole earth was dark. Around midafternoon Jesus groaned out of the depths, crying loudly, "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" which means, "My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?"
Everything New I saw Heaven and earth new-created. Gone the first Heaven, gone the first earth, gone the sea. I saw Holy Jerusalem, new-created, descending resplendent out of Heaven, as ready for God as a bride for her husband. I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: "Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They're his people, he's their God. He'll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good—tears gone, crying gone, pain gone—all the first order of things gone." The Enthroned continued, "Look! I'm making everything new. Write it all down—each word dependable and accurate." Then he said, "It's happened. I'm A to Z. I'm the Beginning, I'm the Conclusion. From Water-of-Life Well I give freely to the thirsty. Conquerors inherit all this. I'll be God to them, they'll be sons and daughters to me. But for the rest—the feckless and faithless, degenerates and murderers, sex peddlers and sorcerers, idolaters and all liars—for them it's Lake Fire and Brimstone. Second death!" One of the Seven Angels who had carried the bowls filled with the seven final disasters spoke to me: "Come here. I'll show you the Bride, the Wife of the Lamb." He took me away in the Spirit to an enormous, high mountain and showed me Holy Jerusalem descending out of Heaven from God, resplendent in the bright glory of God. The City shimmered like a precious gem, light-filled, pulsing light. She had a wall majestic and high with twelve gates. At each gate stood an Angel, and on the gates were inscribed the names of the Twelve Tribes of the sons of Israel: three gates on the east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, three gates on the west. The wall was set on twelve foundations, the names of the Twelve Apostles of the Lamb inscribed on them. The Angel speaking with me had a gold measuring stick to measure the City, its gates, and its wall. The City was laid out in a perfect square. He measured the City with the measuring stick: twelve thousand stadia, its length, width, and height all equal. Using the standard measure, the Angel measured the thickness of its wall: 144 cubits. The wall was jasper, the color of Glory, and the City was pure gold, translucent as glass. The foundations of the City walls were garnished with every precious gem imaginable: the first foundation jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls, each gate a single pearl. The main street of the City was pure gold, translucent as glass. But there was no sign of a Temple, for the Lord God—the Sovereign-Strong—and the Lamb are the Temple. The City doesn't need sun or moon for light. God's Glory is its light, the Lamb its lamp! The nations will walk in its light and earth's kings bring in their splendor. Its gates will never be shut by day, and there won't be any night. They'll bring the glory and honor of the nations into the City. Nothing dirty or defiled will get into the City, and no one who defiles or deceives. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life will get in.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wash ye, make you clean, c. These two words are to be regarded as one, since they intend the same thing, and suppose the persons spoken to to be unclean, as they were, notwithstanding their legal sacrifices and ceremonial ablutions and are designed to convince them of it, to bring them to a sense of their inability to cleanse themselves, to lead them to inquire after the proper means of it, and so to the fountain of Christ's blood to wash in, which only cleanses from it:
put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; the exhortation is not barely to put away their doings, but the evil of them, and that not from themselves, but from before the eyes of God, from the eyes of his vindictive justice, which is only done by the sacrifice of Christ; and the use of this exhortation is to show the necessity of putting away sin to salvation, and the insufficiency of the blood of bulls and goats to do it, since, notwithstanding these, it remains untaken away; and to direct to the sacrifice of Christ, which effectually does it.
Cease to do evil; either from ceremonial works done with a wicked mind, or from outward immoralities, such as shedding innocent blood, oppressing the fatherless and widow, things mentioned in the context; it denotes a cessation from a series and course of sinning, otherwise there is no ceasing from sin in this life.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Wash you - This is, of course, to be understood in a moral sense; meaning that they should put away their sins. Sin is represented in the Scriptures as defiling or polluting the soul Ezekiel 20:31; Ezekiel 23:30; Hosea 5:8; Hosea 9:4; and the removal of it is represented by the act of washing; Psalms 51:2 : âWash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin;â Jeremiah 4:14 : âO Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved;â Job 9:30; 1 Corinthians 6:11; Hebrews 10:22; 2 Peter 2:22; Revelation 1:5; Revelation 7:14. It is used here in close connection with the previous verse, where the prophet says that their hands were flied with blood. He now admonishes them to wash away that blood, with the implied understanding, that then their prayers would be heard. It is worthy of remark, also, that the prophet directs them to do this themselves. He addresses them as moral agents, and as having ability to do it. This is the uniform manner in which God addresses sinners in the Bible, requiring them to put away their sins, and to make themselves a new heart. Compare Ezekiel 18:31-32.
The evil of your doings - This is a Hebraism, to denote your evil doings.
From before mine eyes - As God is omniscient, to put them away from before his eyes, is to put them away altogether. To pardon or forgive sin, is often expressed by hiding it; Psalms 51:9 :
Hide thy face from my sins.
Cease to do evil - Compare 1 Peter 3:10-11. The prophet is specifying what was necessary in order that their prayers might be heard, and that they might find acceptance with God. What he states here is a universal truth. If sinners wish to find acceptance with God, they must come renouncing all sin; resolving to put away everything that God hates, however dear it may be to the heart. Compare Mark 9:43-47.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Isaiah 1:16. Wash you — Referring to the preceding verse, "your hands are full of blood;" and alluding to the legal washing commanded on several occasions. See Leviticus 14:8-9; Leviticus 14:47.
