Isaiah 1:15
When ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; Yea, when ye multiply prayers, I will not hear: Your hands are full of blood!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14Your new moons and your feasts my soul hateth; They are a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
16Wash you; make you clean; Put away your evil doings from before mine eyes;
Cross References
Job 27:20Terrors pursue him like a flood; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Psalms 66:18If I had meditated wickedness in my heart, The Lord would not have heard me:
Proverbs 1:28Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer! They will seek me early, But they shall not find me!
Isaiah 8:17I will, therefore, wait for Jehovah, Who now hideth his face from the house of Jacob; Yet will I 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 →