³ Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.

⁶ And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

¹⁵ O Lord God of Israel, righteousness is yours; we are only a small band which has been kept from death, as at this day: see, we are before you in our sin; for no one may keep his place before you because of this.

¹⁸ For a great number of the people from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not made themselves clean, but they took the Passover meal, though not in the right way. For Hezekiah had made prayer for them, saying, May the good Lord have mercy on everyone

¹⁹ Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

²⁰ And the Lord gave ear to Hezekiah, and made the people well.

¹⁸ O my God, let your ear be turned and give hearing; let your eyes be open and see how we have been made waste and the town which is named by your name: for we are not offering our prayers before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercies.

¹¹ But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;

¹² And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.

¹³ Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

¹³ And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?

¹⁴ And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb.

⁸ And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.