16 Wash and make yourselves clean. Take your evil deeds out of my sight; stop doing wrong.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
16 Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
16 Go home and wash up. Clean up your act. Sweep your lives clean of your evildoings so I don't have to look at them any longer. Say no to wrong.
16 "Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil,
16 Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 1:16
Commentary on Isaiah 1:16-20
(Read Isaiah 1:16-20)
Not only feel sorrow for the sin committed, but break off the practice. We must be doing, not stand idle. We must be doing the good the Lord our God requires. It is plain that the sacrifices of the law could not atone, even for outward national crimes. But, blessed be God, there is a Fountain opened, in which sinners of every age and rank may be cleansed. Though our sins have been as scarlet and crimson, a deep dye, a double dye, first in the wool of original corruption, and afterwards in the many threads of actual transgression; though we have often dipped into sin, by many backslidings; yet pardoning mercy will take out the stain, Psalm 51:7. They should have all the happiness and comfort they could desire. Life and death, good and evil, are set before us. O Lord, incline all of us to live to thy glory.