Isaiah 1:15

God refuses to hear their prayers because their hands are 'full of blood.' Unrepented sin, especially injustice, cuts off communion with God.

Cross-references · 22

• Mic 3:4Then 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.
• Prov 1:28Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
• Isa 59:2–3But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
• Zech 7:13And just as I had called and they would not listen, so when they called I would not listen, says the LORD of Hosts.
• Jer 7:8–10But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
• Ps 66:18If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
• Jer 14:12Although 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.”
• Luke 13:25–28After the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, you will stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ But he will reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’
• Ps 55:1For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.
• 1 Kgs 8:22Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
• Isa 58:7Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
• Matt 6:7And when you pray, do not babble on like pagans, for they think that by their many words they will be heard.
• Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
• Mic 3:9–11Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
• 1 Kgs 8:54Now when Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the LORD, he got up before the altar of the LORD, where he had been kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• Isa 8:17I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
• 1 Tim 2:8Therefore I want the men everywhere to pray, lifting up holy hands, without anger or dissension.
• Ezek 8:17–18“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
• Job 27:8–9For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Ezra 9:5At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,

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