Defend the oppressed

16 

Wash and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
    stop doing wrong.

17 

Learn to do right; seek justice.
    Defend the oppressed.[a]
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.

19 

If you are willing and obedient,
    you will eat the good things of the land;

20 

but if you resist and rebel,
    you will be devoured by the sword.”
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

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