Isaiah 1:15

Israel's Corrupt Religion

¹⁴ Your new moons and your set seasons hath My soul hated, They have been upon me for a burden, I have been weary of bearing. ¹⁵ And in your spreading forth your hands, I hide mine eyes from you, Also when ye increase prayer, I do not hear, Your hands of blood have been full. ¹⁶ Wash ye, make ye pure, Turn aside the evil of your doings, from before Mine eyes, Cease to do evil, learn to do good.

Give Ear

With Blood

Isaiah 59:2-3

But your iniquities have been separating Between you and your God, And your sins have hidden The Presence from you -- from hearing.

Micah 3:4

Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.

1 Kings 8:22

And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens,

Proverbs 1:28

Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

1 Kings 8:54

And it cometh to pass, at Solomon's finishing to pray unto Jehovah all this prayer and supplication, he hath risen from before the altar of Jehovah, from bending on his knees, and his hands spread out to the heavens,

Ezra 9:5

And at the present of the evening I have risen from mine affliction, and at my rending my garment and my upper robe, then I bow down on my knees, and spread out my hands unto Jehovah my God,

Job 27:8-9

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

Job 27:20

Overtake him as waters do terrors, By night stolen him away hath a whirlwind.

Psalm 55:1

To the Overseer with stringed instruments. -- An instruction, by David. Give ear, O God, to my prayer, And hide not from my supplication.

Psalm 66:18

Iniquity, if I have seen in my heart, The Lord doth not hear.

Psalm 134:2

Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.

Isaiah 8:17

And I have waited for Jehovah, Who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob, And I have looked for Him.

Isaiah 58:7

Is it not to deal to the hungry thy bread, And the mourning poor bring home, That thou seest the naked and cover him, And from thine own flesh hide not thyself?

Jeremiah 7:8-10

Lo, ye are trusting for yourselves On the words of falsehood, so as not to profit.

Jeremiah 14:12

When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

And He saith unto me, 'Hast thou seen, son of man? hath it been a light thing to the house of Judah to do the abomination that they have done here, that they have filled the land with violence, and turn back to provoke Me to anger? and lo, they are putting forth the branch unto their nose!

Micah 3:9-11

Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

Zechariah 7:13

And it cometh to pass, as He called, And they have not hearkened, So do they call, and I do not hearken, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

Matthew 6:7

And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

Matthew 23:13

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

Luke 13:25-28

from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

1 Timothy 2:8

I wish, therefore, that men pray in every place, lifting up kind hands, apart from anger and reasoning;