Isaiah 1:15

When you hold up your hands to me in prayer, I'll look away. Even though you pray many prayers, I won't pay attention to them, because 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

14I detest your new moon and yearly festivals with my whole being! They've become just a burden to me—I can't bear them anymore!

16Wash yourselves and clean yourselves up. Get rid of your sins—I don't want to see them! Stop doing evil!

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22Then Solomon stood in front of the altar of the Lord before the whole assembly of Israel and held out his hands toward heaven.

Ezra 9:5At the evening sacrifice, I stood up from where I had been sitting in grief, with my clothes torn, and I kneeled down and held out my hands to the Lord my God.

Job 27:20Waves of panic flood over them; in the night a whirlwind snatches them away.

Psalms 66:18If I had focused my mind on evil, the Lord would not have listened to me.

Proverbs 1:28then you'll call out to me for help, but I won't answer; you'll search hard for me, but won't find me.

Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the Lord, the one who is hiding his face from Jacob's descendants. I will wait in hope 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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