Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of blood! New Living Translation When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims. English Standard Version When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Berean Standard Bible When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. King James Bible And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. New King James Version When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. New American Standard Bible “So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you offer many prayers, I will not be listening. Your hands are covered with blood. NASB 1995 “So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. NASB 1977 “So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you, Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. Legacy Standard Bible So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; Indeed, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood. Amplified Bible “So when you spread out your hands [in prayer, pleading for My help], I will hide My eyes from you; Yes, even though you offer many prayers, I will not be listening. Your hands are full of blood! Christian Standard Bible When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. Holman Christian Standard Bible When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.” American Standard Version And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. Contemporary English Version "No matter how much you pray, I won't listen. You are too violent. English Revised Version And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. GOD'S WORD® Translation So when you stretch out your hands [in prayer], I will turn my eyes away from you. Even though you offer many prayers, I will not listen because your hands are covered with blood. Good News Translation "When you lift your hands in prayer, I will not look at you. No matter how much you pray, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with blood. International Standard Version When you spread out your hands in prayer, I'll hide my eyes from you. Even though you pray repeatedly, I won't listen. Your hands are full of blood, your fingers drenched with iniquity." Majority Standard Bible When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. NET Bible When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood. New Heart English Bible 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. Webster's Bible Translation And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: yes, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. World English Bible When you spread out 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. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd in your spreading forth your hands, I hide My eyes from you, "" Also when you increase prayer, I do not hear, "" Your hands have been full of blood. Young's Literal Translation 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. Smith's Literal Translation And in the spreading forth of your hands I will hide mine eyes from you; also when ye shall multiply prayer I hear not: your hands were full of blood. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood. Catholic Public Domain Version And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood. New American Bible When you spread out your hands, I will close my eyes to you; Though you pray the more, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood! New Revised Standard Version When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleAnd when you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not hear; your hands are full of blood. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated When you spread your hands, I shall turn away my eyes from you; even though you will multiply prayers, I will not hear; your hands are filled with blood OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide Mine eyes from you; Yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear; Your hands are full of blood. Brenton Septuagint Translation When ye stretch forth your hands, I will turn away mine eyes from you: and though ye make many supplications, I will not hearken to you; for your hands are full of blood. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Meaningless Offerings…14I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. 15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. 16Wash and cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from My sight. Stop doing evil!… Cross References Proverbs 28:9 Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable. Micah 3:4 Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done. Jeremiah 11:14 As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster. Jeremiah 14:12 Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.” Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.” Amos 5:21-23 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. / Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. Hosea 5:6 They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them. Zechariah 7:13 And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts. Psalm 66:18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened. Psalm 109:7 When he is tried, let him be found guilty, and may his prayer be regarded as sin. Matthew 6:7 And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard. Matthew 7:21-23 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven. / Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ / Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of lawlessness!’ Mark 7:6-7 Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ John 9:31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will. James 4:3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. Treasury of Scripture And 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. when Isaiah 59:2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 1 Kings 8:22,54 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven: … Ezra 9:5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God, I will Isaiah 58:7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Psalm 55:1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. make many prayers. Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. your hands Isaiah 59:2,3 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear… Jeremiah 7:8-10 Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit… Micah 3:9-11 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity… blood. Jump to Previous Blood Covered Eyes Forth Full Hands Hear Hide Increase Making Multiply Prayer Prayers Spread Spreading Stretched TurnedJump to Next Blood Covered Eyes Forth Full Hands Hear Hide Increase Making Multiply Prayer Prayers Spread Spreading Stretched TurnedIsaiah 1 1. Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion5. He laments her judgments 10. He upbraids their whole service 16. He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats 21. Bewailing their wickedness, he denounces God's judgments 25. He promises grace 28. And threatens destruction to the wicked When you spread out your hands In ancient Hebrew culture, spreading out one's hands was a common posture of prayer and supplication, symbolizing openness and a plea for divine attention. The Hebrew root for "spread out" is "פָּרַשׂ" (paras), which conveys the act of stretching or extending. This gesture, while outwardly pious, is rendered ineffective by the insincerity of the people's hearts. The physical act of prayer is not enough; God desires genuine repentance and righteousness. I will hide My eyes from you even though you multiply your prayers I will not listen Your hands are covered with blood When ye make many prayers.--The Pentateuch contains no directions for the use of forms of prayer beyond the benediction of Numbers 6:23-26, and two forms connected with the Passover in Deuteronomy 26:5-10; Deuteronomy 26:13-15. The "eighteen prayers" for daily use belong to the later Rabbinic stage of Judaism. It lies in the nature of the case, however, that first a real, and then an ostentatious devotion would show itself in the use of such forms, possibly, as in Psalm 119:164, "seven times a day." In Proverbs 27:14; Proverbs 28:9, which belong to the reign of Hezekiah, and may, therefore, indirectly represent Isaiah's teaching, we have the warnings of the wise as to the right use of such forms. . . . Verse 15. - I will hide mine eyes, etc. A time comes when the wicked are alarmed, and seek to turn to God; but it is too late. "Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me" (Proverbs 1:28). When ye make many prayers; literally, multiply prayer. Full of blood (comp. ver. 21). Actual bloodshed may be pointed at, as the murder of Zechariah (2 Chronicles 24:21), and the fate which befell Isaiah himself, according to the tradition, would seem to show. But cruelty and oppression, producing poverty and wretchedness, and tending to shorten life, are no doubt also included (comp. Micah 3:10, 11). These were the special sins of the time (see vers. 17, 23).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew When you spread outוּבְפָרִשְׂכֶ֣ם (ū·ḇə·p̄ā·riś·ḵem) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 6566: To break apart, disperse your hands in prayer, כַּפֵּיכֶ֗ם (kap·pê·ḵem) Noun - fdc | second person masculine plural Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan I will hide אַעְלִ֤ים (’a‘·lîm) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 5956: To veil from sight, conceal My eyes עֵינַי֙ (‘ê·nay) Noun - cdc | first person common singular Strong's 5869: An eye, a fountain from you; מִכֶּ֔ם (mik·kem) Preposition | second person masculine plural Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of even גַּ֛ם (gam) Conjunction Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and though כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction you multiply תַרְבּ֥וּ (ṯar·bū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great your prayers, תְפִלָּ֖ה (ṯə·p̄il·lāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8605: Intercession, supplication, a hymn I will not אֵינֶ֣נִּי (’ê·nen·nî) Adverb | first person common singular Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle listen. שֹׁמֵ֑עַ (šō·mê·a‘) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently Your hands יְדֵיכֶ֖ם (yə·ḏê·ḵem) Noun - fdc | second person masculine plural Strong's 3027: A hand are covered מָלֵֽאוּ׃ (mā·lê·’ū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 4390: To fill, be full of with blood. דָּמִ֥ים (dā·mîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed Links Isaiah 1:15 NIVIsaiah 1:15 NLT Isaiah 1:15 ESV Isaiah 1:15 NASB Isaiah 1:15 KJV Isaiah 1:15 BibleApps.com Isaiah 1:15 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 1:15 Chinese Bible Isaiah 1:15 French Bible Isaiah 1:15 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 1:15 When you spread forth your hands (Isa Isi Is) |
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