Isaiah 1:15

When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 fasting, and rest from work, your new moons also, and your feasts my soul hates: ye have become loathsome to me; I will no more pardon your sins.

16Wash you, be clean; remove your iniquities from your souls before mine eyes; cease from your iniquities;

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22And Solomon stood up in front of the altar before all the congregation of Israel; and he spread out his hands toward heaven:

Ezra 9:5And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my humiliation; and when I had rent my garments, then I trembled, and I bow myself on my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord God,

Job 27:20Pains have come upon him as water, 1 And darkness has carried him away by night. 1

Proverbs 1:28For it shall be that when ye call upon me, I will not hearken to you: 1 Wicked men shall seek me, but shall not find me. 1

Isaiah 8:17And one shall say, I will wait for God, who has turned away his face from the house of Jacob, and I will trust in 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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