Isaiah 1:15

Bible in Basic English 1965

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:22

Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,

1 Kings 8:54

Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;

Ezra 9:5

And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,

Job 27:20

Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

Job 35:13

But God will not give ear to what is false, or the Ruler of all take note of it;

Psalm 134:2

Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.

Psalm 55:1

To the chief music-maker, on Neginoth. Maschil. Of David. Give hearing to my prayer, O God; and let not your ear be shut against my request.

Psalm 66:18

I said in my heart, The Lord will not give ear to me:

Exodus 9:29

And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.

Proverbs 1:28

Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

Proverbs 6:17

Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

Isaiah 4:4

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.

Isaiah 45:15

Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

Isaiah 58:4

If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?

Isaiah 64:7

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

Isaiah 8:17

And I will be waiting for the Lord, whose face is veiled from the house of Jacob, and I will be looking for him.

Jeremiah 11:11

So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

Jeremiah 4:31

A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

Ezekiel 11:6

You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

Ezekiel 14:3

Son of man, these men have taken their false gods into their hearts and put before their faces the sin which is the cause of their fall: am I to give ear when they come to me for directions?

Ezekiel 39:23

And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.

Hosea 5:6

They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

Micah 3:4

Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.

Zechariah 7:13

And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

Matthew 23:13

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Matthew 6:7

And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.

John 9:31

We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

1 Timothy 2:8

It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.