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)

²⁴ But let justice^(A) roll on like a river,
    righteousness^(B) like a never-failing stream!^(C)

⁸ He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
    And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly^(A) and to love mercy
    and to walk humbly^[a](B) with your God.^(C)