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.

American Standard Version

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

14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.

16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

Ezra 9:5And at the evening oblation I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe rent; and I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God;

Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Psalms 66:18If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear:

Proverbs 1:28Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

Isaiah 8:17And I will wait for Jehovah, that 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 →

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