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 to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
• Prov 1:28Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
• Isa 59:2–3But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
• Zech 7:13It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;
• Jer 7:8–10Behold, you trust in lying words, that can’t profit.
• Ps 66:18If I cherished sin in my heart, the Lord wouldn’t have listened.
• Jer 14:12When 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.”
• Luke 13:25–28When 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, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
• Ps 55:1For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A contemplation by David. Listen to my prayer, God. Don’t hide yourself from my supplication.
• 1 Kgs 8:22Solomon stood before Yahweh’s altar in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven;
• Isa 58:7Isn’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?
• Matt 6:7In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
• Job 27:20Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.
• Mic 3:9–11Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
• 1 Kgs 8:54It was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to Yahweh, he arose from before Yahweh’s altar, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread out toward heaven.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Isa 8:17I will wait for Yahweh, who hides his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.
• 1 Tim 2:8I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
• Ezek 8:17–18Then 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. Behold, they put the branch to their nose.
• Ps 134:2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary. Praise Yahweh!
• 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 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 Yahweh my God;

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