Isaiah 1:15

So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; 1 even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen; 1 your hands are full of blood. 1

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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 hate your new moons and your appointed feasts; 1 they are a burden to me; I am tired of enduring them. 1

16Wash, cleanse yourselves; 1 remove the evil of your deeds from my sight; 1 stop being evil; 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh, before all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward the heavens.

Ezra 9:5But at the evening offering I arose from my position of humiliation in my torn clothes and robe, and knelt down and spread my hands to Yahweh my God.

Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters; 1 a storm takes him away in the night. 1

Psalms 66:18If I had seen sin within my heart, 1 the Lord would not have listened to me. 1

Proverbs 1:28Then they will call upon me, and I will not answer; 1 they will desperately call for me, but they will not find me. 1

Isaiah 8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob; I will trust in him. 1

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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