Isaiah 1:15

New Living Translation

When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:22

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire community of Israel. He lifted his hands toward heaven,

1 Kings 8:54

When Solomon finished making these prayers and petitions to the Lord, he stood up in front of the altar of the Lord, where he had been kneeling with his hands raised toward heaven.

Ezra 9:5

At the time of the sacrifice, I stood up from where I had sat in mourning with my clothes torn. I fell to my knees and lifted my hands to the Lord my God.

Job 27:20

Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.

Job 35:13

But it is wrong to say God doesn’t listen, to say the Almighty isn’t concerned.

Psalm 134:2

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

Psalm 55:1

Listen to my prayer, O God. Do not ignore my cry for help!

Psalm 66:18

If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Exodus 9:29

“All right,” Moses replied. “As soon as I leave the city, I will lift my hands and pray to the Lord. Then the thunder and hail will stop, and you will know that the earth belongs to the Lord.

Proverbs 1:28

“When they cry for help, I will not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent,

Isaiah 4:4

The Lord will wash the filth from beautiful Zion and cleanse Jerusalem of its bloodstains with the hot breath of fiery judgment.

Isaiah 45:15

Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior, you work in mysterious ways.

Isaiah 58:4

What good is fasting when you keep on fighting and quarreling? This kind of fasting will never get you anywhere with me.

Isaiah 58:7

Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless. Give clothes to those who need them, and do not hide from relatives who need your help.

Isaiah 64:7

Yet no one calls on your name or pleads with you for mercy. Therefore, you have turned away from us and turned us over to our sins.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord, who has turned away from the descendants of Jacob. I will put my hope in him.

Jeremiah 11:11

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am going to bring calamity upon them, and they will not escape. Though they beg for mercy, I will not listen to their cries.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. Instead, I will devour them with war, famine, and disease.”

Jeremiah 4:31

I hear a cry, like that of a woman in labor, the groans of a woman giving birth to her first child. It is beautiful Jerusalem gasping for breath and crying out, “Help! I’m being murdered!”

Ezekiel 11:6

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

Ezekiel 14:3

“Son of man, these leaders have set up idols in their hearts. They have embraced things that will make them fall into sin. Why should I listen to their requests?

Ezekiel 39:23

The nations will then know why Israel was sent away to exile—it was punishment for sin, for they were unfaithful to their God. Therefore, I turned away from them and let their enemies destroy them.

Hosea 5:6

When they come with their flocks and herds to offer sacrifices to the Lord, they will not find him, because he has withdrawn from them.

Micah 3:4

Then you beg the Lord for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to answer? After all the evil you have done, he won’t even look at you!”

Zechariah 7:13

“Since they refused to listen when I called to them, I would not listen when they called to me, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

Matthew 23:13

“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.

Matthew 6:7

“When you pray, don’t babble on and on as the Gentiles do. They think their prayers are answered merely by repeating their words again and again.

John 9:31

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.

1 Timothy 2:8

In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy.