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12 ) When all of you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
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13 ) Bring no more vain oblations, incense is an abomination unto me, the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with, it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
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14 ) Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates: they are a trouble unto me, I am weary to bear them.
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15 ) And when all of you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when all of you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
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16 ) Wash you, make you clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes, cease to do evil,
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17 ) Learn to do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.