Isaiah 1:15

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

“When you raise your arms to pray to me, I will refuse to look at you. You will say more and more prayers, but I will refuse to listen because your hands are covered with blood.

Cross References

Micah 3:4

Then you will pray to the Lord, but he will not answer you. No, he will hide his face from you, because what you do is evil.”

Proverbs 1:28

“Fools will call for me, but I will not answer. They will look for me, but they will not find me.

Zechariah 7:13

So the Lord All-Powerful said, “I called to them, and they did not answer. So now, if they call to me, I will not answer.

Jeremiah 14:12

They might begin to fast and pray to me, but I will not listen to their prayers. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. I will destroy the people of Judah with war. I will take away their food, and they will starve. And I will destroy them with terrible diseases.”

1 Kings 8:22

Then Solomon stood in front of whole assembly of Israel and faced the Lord’s altar. Solomon spread his hands and looked toward heaven

Isaiah 58:7

I want you to share your food with the hungry. I want you to find the poor who don’t have homes and bring them into your own homes. When you see people who have no clothes, give them your clothes! Don’t hide from your relatives when they need help.”

Psalm 55:1

God, hear my prayer. Don’t ignore my cry for help.

Job 27:20

Terrible fears will come over them like a flood, like a storm in the night that blows everything away.

1 Kings 8:54

When Solomon prayed this prayer to the Lord, he was on his knees in front of the Lord’s altar and his arms were raised toward heaven. When he finished praying, he stood up.

Matthew 23:13

“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the way for people to enter God’s kingdom. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop those who are trying to enter.

Matthew 6:7

“And when you pray, don’t be like the people who don’t know God. They say the same things again and again. They think that if they say it enough, their god will hear them.

1 Timothy 2:8

I want the men everywhere to pray. Men who lift their hands in prayer must be devoted to God and pleasing to him. They must be men who keep themselves from getting angry and having arguments.

Isaiah 8:17

The Lord has turned away from the family of Jacob. But I will wait for him. I trust that he will come to save us.

Psalm 134:2

Lift your hands toward the Temple, and praise the Lord.

Ezra 9:5

Then, when it was time for the evening sacrifice, I got up. I had made myself look shameful while I was sitting there. My robe and coat were torn, and I fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the Lord my God.

John 9:31

We all know that God does not listen to sinners, but he will listen to anyone who worships and obeys him.

Exodus 9:29

Moses told Pharaoh, “When I leave the city, I will lift my hands in prayer to the Lord, and the thunder and hail will stop. Then you will know that the Lord is in this land.

Job 35:13

God will not listen to their worthless begging. God All-Powerful will not pay attention to them.

Isaiah 4:4

The Lord will wash away the filth from the daughters of Zion. He will wash away the blood from Jerusalem. With a spirit of judgment that burns like fire, he will make everything pure.

Isaiah 45:15

You are the God people cannot see. You are the God who saves Israel.

Isaiah 58:4

You are hungry, but not for food. You are hungry for arguing and fighting, not for bread. You are hungry to hit people with your evil hands. This is not the way to fast if you want your prayers to be heard in heaven!

Isaiah 64:7

We don’t call to you for help. We aren’t excited about following you, so you have turned away from us. We are helpless before you, because we are full of sin.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a scream like a woman giving birth to her first baby. It is the cry of daughter Zion. She is lifting her hands in prayer, saying, “Oh! I am about to faint! Murderers are all around me!”

Jeremiah 11:11

So this is what the Lord says: “I will soon make something terrible happen to the people of Judah. They will not be able to escape. They will be sorry and cry to me for help, but I will not listen to them.

Ezekiel 11:6

You have killed many people in this city. You have filled the streets with dead bodies.

Ezekiel 14:3

“Son of man, these men came to talk to you. But they still have their filthy idols. They kept the things that made them sin. They still worship those statues, so why do they come to me for advice? Should I answer their questions?

Ezekiel 39:23

And the nations will know why the family of Israel was carried away as prisoners to other countries. They will learn that my people turned against me, so I turned away from them. I let their enemies defeat them, so my people were killed in battle.

Hosea 5:6

“The leaders of the people went to look for the Lord. They took their sheep and cattle with them, but they did not find the Lord because he refused to accept them.

Proverbs 6:17

eyes that show pride, tongues that tell lies, hands that kill innocent people,