“Come, let us discuss this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they will be as white as snow;
though they are as red as crimson,
they will be like wool.

Israel, even if your people were as numerous
as the sand of the sea,
only a remnant of them will return.
Destruction has been decreed;
justice overflows.

For the Lord said this to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker counts years, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.

All the nations are as nothing before Him;
they are considered by Him
as nothingness and emptiness.