They had rebelled, they did not know or consider their maker. We have the same pruises and sores and they cannot be healed. God will turn his back on us and will not hear our prayer. He wants us to wash our hands and become clean, to put away our evil thoughts and doings. To flee evil and learn to do good. he wants to reason together that though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow if we love him and forever give thought and thanks to God for his son.. He said if we refuse to do good that we shall be devoured.