If I wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,
Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.
I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,
If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause. “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
if my step has turned aside from the way and my heart has gone after my eyes, and if any spot has stuck to my hands,
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