^{11 Ref} `Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated `with' burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.

^{12 Ref} When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts?

^{13 Ref} Add not to bring in a vain present, Incense -- an abomination it `is' to Me, New moon, and sabbath, calling of convocation! Rendure not iniquity -- and a restraint!

^{14 Ref} Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing.

^{15 Ref} And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.

^{16 Ref} Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

^{17 Ref} Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow.

^{18 Ref} Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

^{19 Ref} If ye are willing, and have hearkened, The good of the land ye consume,

^{20 Ref} And if ye refuse, and have rebelled, `By' the sword ye are consumed, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

^{21 Ref} How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it `with' judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it -- now murderers.

^{22 Ref} Thy silver hath become dross, Thy drink polluted with water.

^{23 Ref} Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

^{24 Ref} Therefore -- the affirmation of the Lord -- Jehovah of Hosts, the Mighty One of Israel: Ah, I am eased of Mine adversaries, And I am avenged of Mine enemies,

^{25 Ref} And I turn back My hand upon thee, And I refine as purity thy dross, And I turn aside all thy tin,

^{26 Ref} And I give back thy judges as at the first, And thy counsellors as in the beginning, After this thou art called, `A city of righteousness -- a faithful city.'

^{27 Ref} Zion in judgment is redeemed, And her captivity in righteousness.

^{28 Ref} And the destruction of transgressors and sinners `is' together, And those forsaking Jehovah are consumed.

^{29 Ref} For `men' are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.

^{30 Ref} For ye are as an oak whose leaf is fading, And as a garden that hath no water.

^{31 Ref} And the strong hath been for tow, And his work for a spark, And burned have both of them together, And there is none quenching!