Isaiah 1:15

And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood.

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In The King James Version

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

In Context

14My soul hates your days of proclamation and your solemnities. They have become bothersome to me. I labor to endure them.

16Wash, become clean, take away the evil of your intentions from my eyes. Cease to act perversely.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord, in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and he extended his hands toward heaven.

Ezra 9:5And at the evening sacrifice, I rose up from my affliction, and, having torn my cloak and my tunic, I fell to my knees, and I reached out my hands to the Lord, my God.

Job 27:20Destitution will surround him like water; a storm will overwhelm him in the night.

Proverbs 1:28then they will call to me, and I will not heed, they will arise in the morning, and not find me.

Isaiah 8:17And I will wait for the Lord, who has concealed his face from the house of Jacob, and I will stand before him.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:11-16

The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. ( b. c. 738.) 10 Hear the word of the Lord , ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is… Read the whole commentary →

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