Isaiah 1:15

And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them.

16Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe euill.

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Cross References

1 Kings 8:22Then Salomon stoode before the altar of the Lord in the sight of all the Congregation of Israel, and stretched out his handes towarde heauen,

Ezra 9:5And at the euening sacrifice I arose vp from mine heauinesse, and when I had rent my clothes and my garment, I fell vpon my knees, and spred out mine hands vnto the Lord my God,

Job 27:20Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.

Psalms 66:18If I regard wickednesse in mine heart, the Lord will not heare me.

Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,

Isaiah 8:17Therefore I will waite vpon the Lord that hath hid his face from the house of Iaakob, and I wil looke 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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