Isaiah 1:16

Isaiah 1:16 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
• English Standard Version (ESV)Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
• New King James Version (NKJV)“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,
• New Living Translation (NLT)Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways.

Context of Isaiah 1:16

14Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. 15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong. 17Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow. 18“Come now, let us settle the matter,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.

Isaiah 1:16 word by word

רַחֲצוּ֙ הִזַּכּ֔וּ הָסִ֛ירוּ רֹ֥עַ מַעַלְלֵיכֶ֖ם מִנֶּ֣גֶד עֵינָ֑י חִדְל֖וּ הָרֵֽעַ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Washרָחַץrâchats · to wash: washH7364
• you, make you cleanזָכָהzâkâh · to cleanH2135
• put awayסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: removeH5493
• the evilרֹעַrôa‛ · evilH7455
• of your doingsמַעֲלָלma‛ălâl · deedH4611
• from beforeנֶ֫גֶדneged · beforeH5048
• mine eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• ceaseחָדַלchâdal · to ceaseH2308
• to do evilרָעַעrâ‛a‛ · be evilH7489

Cross-references for Isaiah 1:16

• Job 11:13“Yet if you devote your heart to him and stretch out your hands to him,
• Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence, and go about your altar, Lord,
• Jeremiah 4:14Jerusalem, wash the evil from your heart and be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts?
• Acts 22:16And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.’
• 2 Corinthians 7:1Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.
• James 4:8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
• Revelation 7:14I answered, “Sir, you know.” And he said, “These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Isaiah 55:6Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
• Ezekiel 18:30“Therefore, you Israelites, I will judge each of you according to your own ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall.
• Zechariah 1:3Therefore tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Return to me,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will return to you,’ says the Lord Almighty.
• Matthew 3:8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
• Ephesians 4:22You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
• 1 Peter 2:1Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
• Psalms 34:14Turn from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.
• Psalms 37:27Turn from evil and do good; then you will dwell in the land forever.
• Amos 5:15Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the Lord God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Commentaries on Isaiah 1:16

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Wash 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, Leviticus 14:9, Leviticus 14:47.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16Wash 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; Psalm 51:2: Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin;‘ Jeremiah 4:14: O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-20Verses 16-20 Not only feel sorrow for the sin committed, but break off the practice. We must be doing, not stand idle. We must be doing the good the Lord our God requires. It is plain that the sacrifices of the law could not atone, even for outward national crimes. But, blessed be God, there is a Fountain opened, in which sinners of every age and rank may be cleansed. Though our sins have been as scarlet and crimson, a deep dye, a double dye, first in the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16Wash and cleanse yourselves: The people were made unclean by their sin and impure sacrifices. To be clean in God's eyes, they needed to change their behavior, remove their sins, and abandon their evil ways (see also Isaiah 1:18).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. God saith to the sinner, "Wash you," &c., that he, finding his inability to "make" himself "clean," may cry to God, Wash me, cleanse me (Psa 51:2, 7, 10). before mine eyes--not mere outward reformation before man's eyes, who cannot, as God, see into the heart (Jr 32:19).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 1:16

• Ablution
• Church
• Cleanliness
• Israel, Prophecies Concerning
• Ordinance
• Regeneration
• Reward
• Washing

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Commentaries on Isaiah 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings