⁴ Ah, sinful nation,
    a people laden with iniquity,
^(A)offspring of evildoers,
    children who deal corruptly!
They have forsaken the Lord,
    they have ^(B)despised ^(C)the Holy One of Israel,
    they are utterly ^(D)estranged.

¹⁸ “Come now, ^(A)let us reason^[a] together, says the Lord:
though your sins are like scarlet,
    they shall be as ^(B)white as snow;
though they are red like crimson,
    they shall become like wool.