Isaiah 1:15

New International Version

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood!

Cross References

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not answer them. At that time he will hide his face from them because of the evil they have done.

Proverbs 1:28

“Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me,

Zechariah 7:13

“ ‘When I called, they did not listen; so when they called, I would not listen,’ says the Lord Almighty.

Jeremiah 14:12

Although they fast, I will not listen to their cry; though they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will destroy them with the sword, famine and plague.”

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened;

1 Kings 8:22

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Psalm 55:1

Listen to my prayer, O God, do not ignore my plea;

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.

1 Kings 8:54

When Solomon had finished all these prayers and supplications to the Lord, he rose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Matthew 6:7

And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or disputing.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my trust in him.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the Lord.

Ezra 9:5

Then, at the evening sacrifice, I rose from my self-abasement, with my tunic and cloak torn, and fell on my knees with my hands spread out to the Lord my God

John 9:31

We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.

Exodus 9:29

Moses replied, “When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the Lord. The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.

Job 35:13

Indeed, God does not listen to their empty plea; the Almighty pays no attention to it.

Isaiah 4:4

The Lord will wash away the filth of the women of Zion; he will cleanse the bloodstains from Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

Isaiah 45:15

Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel.

Isaiah 58:4

Your fasting ends in quarreling and strife, and in striking each other with wicked fists. You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high.

Isaiah 64:7

No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us and have given us over to our sins.

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry as of a woman in labor, a groan as of one bearing her first child— the cry of Daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands and saying, “Alas! I am fainting; my life is given over to murderers.”

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them.

Ezekiel 11:6

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

Ezekiel 14:3

“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and put wicked stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I let them inquire of me at all?

Ezekiel 39:23

And the nations will know that the people of Israel went into exile for their sin, because they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies, and they all fell by the sword.

Hosea 5:6

When they go with their flocks and herds to seek the Lord, they will not find him; he has withdrawn himself from them.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,