¹⁸ “Come now, ^(E)let us reason^[a] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as ^(F)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.
^19 (G)If you are willing and obedient,
    you shall eat the good of the land;
²⁰ but if you refuse and rebel,
    you shall be eaten by the sword;
    ^(H)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

²⁴ Therefore, ^(A)as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,
    and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so ^(B)their root will be ^(C)as rottenness,
    and their blossom go up like dust;
for they have ^(D)rejected the law of the Lord of hosts,
    and have ^(E)despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.