KJV King James Version
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.
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Isaiah 1:15
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 1
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
15 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.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וּבְפָרִשְׂכֶ֣םH6566 · pa.ra.sto spreadכַּפֵּיכֶ֗םH3709 · kaphpalmאַעְלִ֤יםH5956 · a.lamto concealעֵינַי֙H5869 · a.yineyeמִכֶּ֔םH9036 · khemyouגַּ֛םH1571 · gamalsoכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforתַרְבּ֥וּH7235 · ra.vahto multiplyתְפִלָּ֖הH8605 · te.phil.lahprayerאֵינֶ֣נִּיH369 · a.yinnothingשֹׁמֵ֑עַH8085 · sha.mato hear: hearיְדֵיכֶ֖םH3027 · yadhandדָּמִ֥יםH1818 · dambloodמָלֵֽאוּ׃H4390 · ma.leto fill
Cross-references
Micah 3:4Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.Isaiah 59:2-3But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:Zechariah 7:13Therefore it is come to pass, [that] as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:Jeremiah 7:8-10Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.Luke 13:25-28When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:Jeremiah 14:12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.Psalm 66:18If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear [me]:Isaiah 58:7[Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?Psalm 55:1To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, [A Psalm] of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.1 Kings 8:22And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:Matthew 23:13But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.Micah 3:9-11Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.Matthew 6:7But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.Job 27:20Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.1 Kings 8:54And it was [so], that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.Job 27:8-9For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?1 Timothy 2:8I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
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