Isaiah 1:15

And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide My eyes from you, || Also when you increase prayer, I do not hear, || Your hands have been full of blood.

Literal 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

14My soul has hated your new moons and your set seasons, || They have been on Me for a burden, || I have been weary of bearing.

16Wash yourselves, make yourselves pure, || Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before My eyes, || Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22And Solomon stands before the altar of YHWH, in front of all the assembly of Israel, and spreads his hands toward the heavens,

Ezra 9:5And at the present of the evening I have risen from my affliction, and at my tearing my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands to my God YHWH,

Job 27:20Terrors overtake him as waters, || By night a whirlwind has stolen him away.

Psalms 66:18Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, || The Lord does not hear.

Proverbs 1:28Then they call me, and I do not answer, || They seek me earnestly, and do not find me.

Isaiah 8:17And I have waited for YHWH, || Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, || And I have looked 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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