And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and request unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my mourning; and having torn my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD’S.
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have cleansed the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.
Behold, you fast for strife and debate, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you shall not fast as you do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.
Is it not to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? when you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you do not hide yourself from your own flesh?
And there is none that calls upon your name, that stirs himself up to take hold of you: for you have hid your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.
Therefore thus says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry to me, I will not listen to them.
When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a food offering, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
For I have heard a voice as of a woman in birth labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore I hid my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so they all fell by the sword.
Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, because they have behaved themselves wrongfully in their doings.
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor permit those who are entering to go in.