Isaiah 1:15

Meaningless Offerings · Isaiah 1:10–20
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Translations

Modern
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
Traditional
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Literal
And in your spreading forth your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply prayers, I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood!
Latin
Et cum extenderitis manus vestras, avertam oculos meos a vobis, et cum multiplicaveritis orationem, non exaudiam: manus enim vestræ sanguine plenæ sunt.

Original

Hebrew
English
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Notes

I will hide my eyes from you … I will not listen: The Lord does not answer prayers from those who live in constant wrongdoing. In this situation, God accused the people of twisting his laws to commit violence against innocent victims.

The people had sinned so much that God no longer found joy in their sacrifices. The Lord wanted Judah to stop the religious practices he had commanded them to do rather than to continue them in a manner that was sinful and false (Isaiah 1:13). Ceremony cannot replace true godliness.

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Glossary

Bloodguilt Courts and Trials Hand Hosea, Book of Isaiah (Person) Isaiah, Book of Sabbath Wrath of God

Topics

Answers To Prayer: Denied to Those Who are Blood Shedders Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Figures Celebrating Holidays Church: Backslidden Eye: Anthropomorphic Uses of Formalism: General Scriptures Concerning Hypocrisy: General Scriptures Concerning Hypocrites: Worship of, not Acceptable to God Murder: God: Rejects the Prayers of Those Guilty of Murder: The Wicked: Have Hands Full of National Sins: Defile: National Worship National Sins: National Prayer Rejected on Account of Ordinance: Insufficiency of, for Salvation Prayer: Postures in Spreading Forth the Hands Prophecies Concerning Israel: Prophecies Concerning of War and Other Judgments Sacrifices: The Jews: Unaccepted In, on Account of Sin The Hands of the Wicked, Described as Bloody The Hands: Often Spread out in Prayer Wicked (People): Prayer of Wicked (People): Worship of, offensive to God Worship: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To