Isaiah 1:15

The Passion Translation

When you stretch out your hands to pray, I will hide my eyes from you. Repeat your prayers all you want, but I will not listen, for your hands are stained with innocent blood.

Cross References

Psalm 134:2

lifting up your hands in holy worship; come and bless the Lord!

Psalm 55:1

God, listen to my prayer! Don’t hide your heart from me when I cry out to you!

Psalm 66:18

Yet if I had closed my eyes to my sin, the Lord God would have closed his ears to my prayer.

Proverbs 1:28

you will cry out to me, but I won’t answer. Then it will be too late to expect my help. When desperation drives you to search for me, I will be nowhere to be found.

Proverbs 6:17

Putting others down while considering yourself superior, spreading lies and rumors, spilling the blood of the innocent,

Isaiah 4:4

And the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains of Jerusalem by a Spirit of justice and by a Spirit of burning.

Isaiah 45:15

Truly, O God of Israel, the Savior, you are a God who hides himself.

Isaiah 58:4

During your fasts, you quarrel and fight with others and strike them with an angry fist. When you fast like that, your voice will not be heard on high.

Isaiah 58:7

Share your food with the hungry! Provide for the homeless and bring them into your home! Clothe the naked! Don’t turn your back on your own flesh and blood!

Isaiah 64:7

No one calls on your name or presses in to lay hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us. You have let us be ruined by our own sins.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the Lord Yahweh, who hides his face from the family of Jacob. And I will place all my hope in him!

Jeremiah 11:11

“Therefore, I, Yahweh, say: Behold! I am bringing calamity upon them from which they will not be able to escape. And they will cry to me, but I will pay no attention.

Jeremiah 14:12

They can fast and pray all they want, but I still won’t listen to their cry. Neither will I accept their burnt offerings and meal offerings that they present to me. I will destroy them by war, food shortages, and plague.”

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard a cry of a woman gasping in labor pains; I saw her writhing in distress as one giving birth to her first child. It is the daughter of Zion, gasping and stretching out her hands for help, saying: “I’m staring at death! I’m fainting before my murderers!”

Ezekiel 11:6

You have murdered so many people in this city that its streets are filled with corpses.

Ezekiel 14:3

“Son of man, these men have set up idols deep within their hearts. And they have set idols before their eyes, so why should I let them ask me anything?

Ezekiel 39:23

The nations will also realize that the people of Israel went into captivity because of their guilt, for they were unfaithful to me. So, I hid my face from them and gave them over to the power of their enemies, whereby they were all killed in war.

Matthew 23:13

“Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and you Pharisees—such frauds and pretenders! You do all you can to keep people from experiencing the reality of heaven’s kingdom realm. Not only do you refuse to enter in, you also forbid anyone else from entering in!

Matthew 6:7

When you pray, there is no need to repeat empty phrases, praying like the Gentiles do, for they expect God to hear them because of their many words.

John 9:31

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but only to godly people who do his will.

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore, I encourage the men to pray on every occasion with hands lifted to God in worship with clean hearts, free from frustration or strife.