If iniquity is in your hand, put it far away, and let not injustice dwell in your tents.
If you return to the Almighty you will be built up; if you remove injustice far from your tents,
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
“Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord God. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin. Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
I will ponder the way that is blameless. Oh when will you come to me? I will walk with integrity of heart within my house;
teach me what I do not see; if I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.
“Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”
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