King James Version
Isaiah 1:16 in the King James Version says “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;”
Isaiah 1:16 · KJV
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. make: Heb. multiply prayer blood: Heb. bloods
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. relieve: or, righten
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“from before”
H5048a front, i.e., part opposite; specifically a counterpart, or mate; usually (adverbial, especially with preposition) over against or before
“mine eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
“cease”
H2308properly, to be flabby, i.e., (by implication) desist; (figuratively) be lacking or idle
“to do evil”
H7489properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e., bad (physically, socially or morally)
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