Isaiah 1:15

Israel's Corrupt Religion

¹⁴ I hate your new holidays and fastings, even from my very heart. I cannot away with such vanity and holding in of the people. They lay upon me as a burden, and I am weary of bearing them! ¹⁵ When ye hold out your hands, I will turn my eyes from you. And though ye make many prayers, yet will I hear nothing at all; for your hands are full of blood. ¹⁶ Thus saith the LORD God: Wash and be clean; put away the wickedness of your imaginations out of my sight. Cease to do evil and learn to do well.

Give Ear

With Blood

Isaiah 59:2-3

But your misdeeds have separated you from your God, and your sins hide his face from you, that he heareth you not.

Micah 3:4

Now the time shall come, that when they call unto the LORD, he shall not hear them, but hide his face from them, because that through their own Imaginations they have dealt so wickedly.

1 Kings 8:22

And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the sight of all the congregation of Israel and stretched out his hands to heaven,

Proverbs 1:28

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

1 Kings 8:54

And 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 and from kneeling on his knees and stretching of his hands up to heaven,

Ezra 9:5

And about the evening sacrifice I rose up from my heaviness, and rent my clothes and my raiment, and fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God;

Job 27:8-9

What hope hath the hypocrite, though he have great good, and though God give him riches after his heart's desire?

Job 27:20

Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.

Psalm 55:1

{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David} Hear my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my petition.

Psalm 66:18

If I incline unto wickedness with my heart, the LORD will not hear me.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and praise the LORD.

Isaiah 8:17

Thus I wait upon the LORD that hath turned his face from the house of Jacob, and I look unto him.

Isaiah 58:7

Yea, and to break the bread to the hungry; and to bring the poor that are harborless unto house; and when thou seest a naked, that thou clothe him and that thou shouldest withdraw thyself from helping thine own flesh?

Jeremiah 7:8-10

But take heed: ye trust in counsels that beguile you and do you no good.

Jeremiah 14:12

For though they fast, I will not hear their prayers. And though they offer burnt offerings and sacrifices, yet will not I accept them. For I will destroy them with the sword, hunger, and pestilence."

Ezekiel 8:17-18

And he said unto me, "Hast thou seen this thou son of man? Thinketh the house of Israel that it is but a trifle to do these abominations here? Should they fill the land full of wickedness, and undertake to provoke me unto anger? Yea, and purposely to cast up their noses upon me?

Micah 3:9-11

O hear this, ye rulers of the house of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: ye that abhor the thing that is lawful, and wrest aside the thing that is straight;

Zechariah 7:13

And thus is it come to pass, that like as he spake and they would not hear: "Even so, they cried and I would not hear, sayeth the LORD of Hosts,

Matthew 6:7

"And when ye pray, babble not much, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard, for their much babbling's sake.

Matthew 23:13

Woe be unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that come to enter in.

Luke 13:25-28

When the good man of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, ye shall 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.'

1 Timothy 2:8

I will, therefore, that the men pray every where, lifting up pure hands without wrath, or doubting.