uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

General Information:

Isaiah speaks Yahweh’s words to the people of Judah in the form of a poem.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) Wash, cleanse yourselves

(Some words not found in UHB: wash make_~_clean remove evil_of your(pl)_deeds_of,your(pl) from,before eyes_of,my cease do_evil )

Here God compares a person who stops sinning with one who washes his body. Alternate translation: “Repent and wash the sin from your heart like you wash the dirt from your body”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) remove the evil of your deeds from my sight

(Some words not found in UHB: wash make_~_clean remove evil_of your(pl)_deeds_of,your(pl) from,before eyes_of,my cease do_evil )

God was not telling them to do their evil deeds somewhere else, but to stop doing them. Alternate translation: “stop doing the evil deeds that I see you doing”