Study it in the app“Come now, and let us argue it out, says YHWH. If your sins are like scarlet, they will be white as snow; if they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.”
God invites us to talk it out: the red will become whiteForgivenessGod invites them to reason: willing and listening, or refusing and rebellingObedience
Comeלְכוּnow,נָאand let us argue it out,וְנִוָּכְחָהsaysיֹאמַרYHWH.יְהוָהIfאִםyour sinsחֲטָאֵיכֶםareיִהְיוּlike scarlet,כַּשָּׁנִיםthey will be whiteיַלְבִּינוּas snow;כַּשֶּׁלֶגifאִםthey are redיַאְדִּימוּlike crimson,כַתּוֹלָעthey will beיִהְיוּlike wool.כַּצֶּמֶר
go
To head for a place, to leave where one is in order to reach another.
Where else “lechu” appearsargue
To lay out the case before someone to reason with him.
Where else “nivachcha” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsoffense, sin
Offense, sin; its penalty.
Where else “chatae” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yihyu” appearsscarlet
Scarlet, crimson; thread dyed that color.
Where else “shanim” appearsturn white
To become snow-colored; be cleansed of sin.
Where else “yalbinu” appearssnow
Snow.
Where else “sheleg” appearsbe red
Be red, turn red; of rams' skins, dyed red.
Where else “yadimu” appearsscarlet
Bright red dye from a worm, or thread of that color.
Where else “tola” appearswool
Wool.
Where else “tsemer” appears17Learn to do good; seek justice; set right the oppressor; judge the case of the orphan; plead the cause of the widow.
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19If you are willing and listen, you will eat the good of the land;
