Isaiah 1:18 (GNV)

Passage

Come nowe, and let vs reason together, sayth the Lord: though your sinnes were as crimsin, they shalbe made white as snowe: though they were red like skarlet, they shalbe as wooll.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe euill.

Isaiah 1:17 Learne to doe well: seeke iudgement, relieue the oppressed: iudge the fatherlesse and defend the widowe.

Isaiah 1:18 Come nowe, and let vs reason together, sayth the Lord: though your sinnes were as crimsin, they shalbe made white as snowe: though they were red like skarlet, they shalbe as wooll.

Isaiah 1:19 If ye consent and obey, ye shall eate the good things of the land.

Isaiah 1:20 But if ye refuse and be rebellious, ye shalbe deuoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "come", "nowe", "reason", "together", "sayth", "lord", "though", and "sinnes". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "come" and "nowe", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 17's "Learne to doe well seeke iudgement relieue..." into verse 19's "If ye consent and obey ye shall...", so "come" and "nowe" belong inside that flow. In Isaiah context, the local focus is the Holy One of Israel, judgment and restoration, the servant of the LORD, and Zion's hope.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "come" and "nowe" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.