¹⁵ When you spread out your hands^(A) in prayer,
    I hide^(B) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.^(C)

Your hands^(D) are full of blood!^(E)

¹⁶ Wash^(F) and make yourselves clean.
    Take your evil deeds out of my sight;^(G)
    stop doing wrong.^(H)
17 Learn to do right;^(I) seek justice.^(J)
    Defend the oppressed.^[a](K)
Take up the cause of the fatherless;^(L)
    plead the case of the widow.^(M)

⁶ “Is not this the kind of fasting^(A) I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice^(B)
    and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed^(C) free
    and break every yoke?^(D)

⁹ Then you will call,^(A) and the Lord will answer;^(B)
    you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

“If you do away with the yoke of oppression,
    with the pointing finger^(C) and malicious talk,^(D)