5 – God's Solution to Israel's Sins

God begins this section of Scripture with a polite request to His people to enter into a mutual understanding of what He requires for obedience. He begins the verse with the word come. The imperative "come" asks a meeting of the minds between the parties "to determine what is right" in order to restore the relationship between God and his people. The spirit with which God desires to enter this discussion assumes and understand that Judah has sinned, to re-evaluate the legitimacy of people's worship, and to reassess whether justice was actually provided for the widow or orphan.

The word translated "reason" is a Hebrew Niphal form verb neevahchcha. It is a reflexive verb that has the characteristic of the one doing the action is also receiving the action. One example would be," I said to myself." So, I am doing the speaking and also receiving the speaking. Here, God says in a very polite manner to His people to "Come, Please, let us reason together." This amounts to a command to appear in a discussion in which it will be shown that Israel is exactly the sinful nation that God has accused her of being, and also that He is the God who is willing to forgive