Isaiah 1:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Wash you, make you clean. God saith to the sinner.

Wash you ..., that he finding his inability to "make" himself "clean," may cry to God, Wash me (Psalms 51:2; Psalms 51:7; Psalms 51:10).

Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes - not mere outward reformation before man's eyes, who cannot, as God, see into the heart (Jeremiah 32:19).

Isaiah 1:16

16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;