Isaiah 1:15

Israel's Corrupt Religion

¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵ “So when you spread out your hands in prayer,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Yes, even though you multiply prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood.
¹⁶ Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil,

Give Ear

With Blood

Isaiah 59:2-3

but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to the LORD, but he will not answer them; he will hide his face from them at that time, because they have made their deeds evil.

1 Kings 8:22

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

1 Kings 8:54

Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.

Ezra 9:5

And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment and my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

Job 27:8-9

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.

Psalm 55:1

Give ear to my prayer, O God, and hide not yourself from my plea for mercy!

Psalm 66:18

If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD!

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh?

Jeremiah 7:8-10

"Behold, you trust in deceptive words to no avail.

Jeremiah 14:12

Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."

Ezekiel 8:17-18

Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations that they commit here, that they should fill the land with violence and provoke me still further to anger? Behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Micah 3:9-11

Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who detest justice and make crooked all that is straight,

Zechariah 7:13

"As I called, and they would not hear, so they called, and I would not hear," says the LORD of hosts,

Matthew 6:7

"And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Luke 13:25-28

When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;