Isaiah 1:15

Israel's Corrupt Religion

¹⁴ My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ Wash yourselves, make yourself 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 separated between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.

Micah 3:4

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

1 Kings 8:22

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

Proverbs 1:28

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

1 Kings 8:54

It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.

Ezra 9:5

At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on 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 he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Job 27:20

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

Psalm 55:1

Listen to my prayer, God. Do not hide yourself from my supplication.

Psalm 66:18

If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn't have listened.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise the LORD.

Isaiah 8:17

I will wait for the LORD, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

Isaiah 58:7

Isn't it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?

Jeremiah 7:8-10

Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence."

Ezekiel 8:17-18

Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? For they have filled the land with violence, and have turned again to provoke me to anger: and behold, they put the branch to their nose.

Micah 3:9-11

Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.

Zechariah 7:13

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the LORD of hosts;

Matthew 6:7

And in praying, do not use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.

Matthew 23:13

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you do not enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter."

Luke 13:25-28

When 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, open to us.' then he will answer and tell you, 'I do not know you or where you come from.'

1 Timothy 2:8

I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.