Isaiah 1:15
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.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil,
Cross References
1 Kings 8:22And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of the whole congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens.
Ezra 9:5And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation; and with my mantle and my garment rent, I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God,
Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.
Psalms 66:18Had I regarded iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not hear.
Proverbs 1:28then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
Isaiah 8:17And I will wait for Jehovah, who hideth his face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for 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 →