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The passage contrasts deep-stained sin with promised cleansing: “though your sins are like scarlet… they shall be as white as snow” (Isaiah 1:18). It is set within a call to stop doing evil and learn to do good, including seeking justice and defending the vulnerable (Isaiah 1:16-17).
16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil;
17learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18Come now, and let us reason together, says Yahweh: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.