^6 (A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
    call upon him while he is near;
⁷ let the wicked forsake his way,
    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,
    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

¹⁷ Thus says the Lord,
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you to profit,
    who leads you in the way you should go.

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.”

¹⁹ “Man is also rebuked with pain on his bed
    and with continual strife in his ^(D)bones,
²⁰ so that his ^(E)life loathes bread,
    and his appetite ^(F)the choicest food.
²¹ His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen,
    and his bones that were not seen ^(G)stick out.
²² His soul draws near ^(H)the pit,
    and his life to ^(I)those who bring death.
²³ If there be for him ^(J)an angel,
    ^(K)a mediator, ^(L)one of the thousand,
    to declare to man what is ^(M)right for him,