Isaiah 1:15

Israel's Corrupt Religion

¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become to me like burden, I am not able to bear [them]. ¹⁵ And when you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I [will] not be listening. Your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash! Make yourselves clean! Remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes! Cease to do evil!

Give Ear

With Blood

Isaiah 59:2-3

Rather, your iniquities have been {barriers} between you and your God, and your sins have hidden [his] face from you, from hearing.

Micah 3:4

Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time, when they have made their deeds evil.

1 Kings 8:22

Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all of the assembly of Israel, and he spread out his hands [to] the heavens,

Proverbs 1:28

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

1 Kings 8:54

It happened that when Solomon finished praying to Yahweh all of the prayer and this plea, he got up from before the altar of Yahweh, from kneeling down on his knees with his palms outstretched to heaven.

Ezra 9:5

At the evening offering I got up from my mourning posture and, with my garment and robe torn, I fell down on my knees and I spread out my palms to Yahweh my God

Job 27:8-9

for what [is the] hope of [the] godless when he cuts [them] off, when God takes away his life?

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night.

Psalm 55:1

Give ear, O God, [to] my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my plea.

Psalm 66:18

If I had considered evil in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in [the] sanctuary and bless Yahweh.

Isaiah 8:17

And I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will await him.

Isaiah 58:7

[Is it] not to break your bread for the hungry? You must bring {home} [the] poor, [the] homeless. When you see [the] naked, you must cover him, and you must not hide yourself from your {relatives}.

Jeremiah 7:8-10

Look, you [are] relying for yourselves on {deceitful words} without benefiting.

Jeremiah 14:12

Although they fast, I [am] not listening to their cry of entreaty. And although they present burnt offering and grain offering, I [am] not favorable to them. But by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague, I [am] about to destroy them."

Ezekiel 8:17-18

And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man? {Was it too small a thing} for the house of Judah {to do} the detestable things that they did here? For they filled up the land [with] violence, and {they provoked me to anger again}, and look! They [are] putting the branch to their nose.

Micah 3:9-11

Hear this, O rulers of the house of Jacob and leaders of the house of Israel, those detesting justice and perverting all that [is] right,

Zechariah 7:13

'Thus, just as I called and they would not hear, so they will call and I will not hear,' says Yahweh of hosts.

Matthew 6:7

"But [when you] pray, do not babble repetitiously like the pagans, for they think that because of their many words they will be heard.

Matthew 23:13

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in to enter.

Luke 13:25-28

when once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock [on] the door, saying, 'Lord, open [the door] for us!' And he will answer [and] say to you, 'I do not know where you are from!'

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and dispute.