Isaiah 1:15

Israel's Corrupt Religion

¹⁴ Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates; they are a trouble to Me; I am weary to bear them. ¹⁵ And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes; cease to do evil;

Give Ear

With Blood

Isaiah 59:2-3

But your iniquities have come between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, from hearing.

Micah 3:4

Then they shall cry to Jehovah, but He will not answer them. He will even hide His face from them at that time, as they have done evil in their doings.

1 Kings 8:22

And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward the heavens.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me;

1 Kings 8:54

And it happened as Solomon finished praying all this prayer and petition to Jehovah, he rose from before the altar of Jehovah, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

Ezra 9:5

And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my affliction. And tearing my garment and my mantle, I fell on my knees and spread out my hands to Jehovah my God.

Job 27:8-9

For what is the hope of the ungodly when He cuts off, when God takes away his soul?

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

Psalm 55:1

To the Chief Musician. For stringed instruments. A contemplation. A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Yourself from my cry.

Psalm 66:18

If I regard iniquity in my heart, Jehovah will not hear;

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.

Isaiah 8:17

And I will wait on Jehovah, who hides His face from the house of Jacob; and I will look for Him.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to break your bread to the hungry, and that you should bring home the wandering poor? When will you see the naked and cover him; and you will not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Jeremiah 7:8-10

Behold, you trust in lying words that cannot do any good.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and a grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the plague.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

And He said to me, Have you seen, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they do the hateful things which they do here? For they have filled the land with violence and have turned to provoke Me to anger. And lo, they put the branch to their nose.

Micah 3:9-11

Please hear this, heads of the house of Jacob, and magistrates of the house of Israel, who hate justice and pervert all equity.

Zechariah 7:13

And it will be, as He called, and they did not listen, so they called, and I did not listen, says Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 6:7

But when you pray, do not babble vain words, as the nations. For they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

Luke 13:25-28

And once the Master of the house has risen up and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, and He shall answer and say to you, I do not know you; from where are you;

1 Timothy 2:8

Therefore, I desire that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.