Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

World English Bible Classic

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 hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.

16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22Solomon stood before the LORD’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;

Ezra 9:5At the evening offering I rose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to the LORD my God;

Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

Psalms 66:18If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.

Proverbs 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,

Isaiah 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will 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 →

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