Isaiah 1:15

And when ye spread forth your hands, I will withdraw my eyes from you; yea, when ye make ever so many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Leeser Tanakh

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 become a burden unto me; I am weary to bear them,

16Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil;

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22And Solomon now placed himself before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

Ezra 9:5And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my fasting, and while rending my garment and my mantle, I knelt down upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God.

Job 27:20Like a flood will terror overtake him, in the night a tempest will steal him away.

Psalms 66:18If I had looked on wickedness with my heart, the Lord would not have heard;

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

Isaiah 8:17And I will wait for the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will 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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