Isaiah 1:15

And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

16Wash yourselves, be clean, take away the evil of your devices from my eyes: cease to do perversely,

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the sight of the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands towards heaven;

Ezra 9:5And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction, and having rent my mantle and my garment, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord my God,

Job 27:20Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night.

Psalms 66:18If I have looked at iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.

Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me:

Isaiah 8:17And I will wait for the Lord, who hath hid 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 →

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